Novel catheters with “mirror” enable operators to see device in vasculature in 3D

IntelliCath © Fraunhofer MEVIS A novel catheter (IntelliCath, Intelligent Catheter Navigation) has been equipped with a special optical fibre containing tiny “mirrors”; these mirrors help operators see how a device moves through a patient’s vasculature, in 3D, during a procedure. Torben Pätz (Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany) and his co-developers have already tested [...]