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ArticleMicromachines2020

Electrothermally Driven Hydrogel-on-Flex-Circuit Actuator for Smart Steerable Catheters.

Madeshwaran Selvaraj, Kenichi Takahata

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Article in Micromachines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Madeshwaran SelvarajDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada.
Kenichi TakahataDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund N/ACanada Foundation for Innovation N/ACanada Research Chairs N/ANatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2016-04252
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper reports an active catheter-tip device functionalized by integrating a temperature-responsive smart polymer onto a microfabricated flexible heater strip, targeting at enabling the controlled steering of catheters through complex vascular networks. A bimorph-like strip structure is enabled by photo-polymerizing a layer of poly(

Indexed as

electrothermal actuatorflex-circuit microfabricationmedical catheterssteerable tipthermoresponsive hydrogel

Identifiers

PMID31936214
PMCPMC7019542
OpenAlexW2999760054

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