TY - GEN
T1 - Programmable Medicine
T2 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2018
AU - D'Argentre, Alexis Du Plessis
AU - Perry, Samuel
AU - Iwata, Yoshitaka
AU - Iwasaki, Haruna
AU - Iwase, Eiji
AU - Fabozzo, Assunta
AU - Will, Iain
AU - Rus, Daniela
AU - Damian, Dana D.
AU - Miyashita, Shuhei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/9/10
Y1 - 2018/9/10
N2 - Gastric ulcer is a chronic and complex (and often complete) erosion of the stomach wall that happens as a complication of a previous chronic, inflammatory process. It represents a catastrophic situation in which the patient is critical and its conditions need to be treated fast. This study presents a remotely navigatable and deployable ingestible patch and plug for gastric ulcer treatment. The patch/plug structure is made of agarose hydrogel that can change rigidity through hydration and dehydration. When dehydrated, it is rigid and can maintain a folded configuration so it can be ingested as a 'pill'. This can be guided to the targeted location by a magnetic field, and be deployed instantly by hydration, namely by supplying water from the mouth. Due to the deployable origami design, it exhibits an expansion of 10 times its initial surface area, making the device suitable for the use of dressing a surface as a patch, and filling a hole as a plug.
AB - Gastric ulcer is a chronic and complex (and often complete) erosion of the stomach wall that happens as a complication of a previous chronic, inflammatory process. It represents a catastrophic situation in which the patient is critical and its conditions need to be treated fast. This study presents a remotely navigatable and deployable ingestible patch and plug for gastric ulcer treatment. The patch/plug structure is made of agarose hydrogel that can change rigidity through hydration and dehydration. When dehydrated, it is rigid and can maintain a folded configuration so it can be ingested as a 'pill'. This can be guided to the targeted location by a magnetic field, and be deployed instantly by hydration, namely by supplying water from the mouth. Due to the deployable origami design, it exhibits an expansion of 10 times its initial surface area, making the device suitable for the use of dressing a surface as a patch, and filling a hole as a plug.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460615
DO - 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460615
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85063148338
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 1511
EP - 1518
BT - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 21 May 2018 through 25 May 2018
ER -