Full member of GSISH

Contact Details:

Institute of Microtechnology and Medical Device Technology (MIMED)
TU München
Boltzmannstr. 15
85748 Garching
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)89.289.15189

E-mail: eva.graf(at)tum.de

Project Details:

Project:
HealthcareRobotics (HeRo)

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Tim C. Lüth
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll

Start of PhD-work at GSISH:
June 2013

Project Description: 
Steerable catheters and sheaths for endovascular interventions are commonly used in the diagnosis and treatment of electrophysiological cardiac disorders and are finding increasing applications in structural heart repair. As the range of clinical procedures increases, so does the demand for accurate and flexible tip steering. Conventional steerable tools have a fixed bending region, but in many cases it is desirable to be able to choose the bending region or even to have 2 independently controlled bending regions to enable control of the tip angle and tip location independently. This Ph. D. work will consist of design, modeling, fabrication, and evaluation of disposable snake robot mechanisms for endovascular tools.


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Personal Details:

06 / 2013 – present:
PhD student at Institute of Microtechnology and Medical Device Technology, TUM

10 / 2007 – 01 / 2013:
Technical University Munich
Study in Mechanical Engineering (Diploma)

04 / 2011 -06 / 2011
Internship at Siemens Healthcare AG, Kemnath

11 / 2008 – 12 / 2010
Student research assistant at Institute of Machine Elements, TUM