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Dr Alex Thompson

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Lecturer in Sensing in Cancer
 
 
 
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B411Bessemer BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Power:2017:10.1109/MARSS.2017.8001946,
author = {Power, M and Seneci, CA and Thompson, AJ and Yang, GZ},
doi = {10.1109/MARSS.2017.8001946},
publisher = {IEEE},
title = {Modelling & characterization of a compliant tethered microgripper for microsurgical applications},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MARSS.2017.8001946},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The development of microscale surgical tools could pave the way for truly minimally invasive microsurgical procedures. This work demonstrates the application of direct laser writing (DLW) using two-photon polymerization (TPP), a rapid prototyping microfabrication technique, to create a tethered, passively actuated three-dimensional gripper with potential applications in microbiopsy. A microgripper design was devised, modelled and optimized. The gripper was then fabricated and characterized for validation of the theoretical model. The results demonstrate that modelling the behavior of compliant microtools provides a useful approximation for the observed trends and, thus, can be utilized in the design of TPP tools. Future work on the incorporation of viscoelastic material into the model will further improve agreement between the predicted and experimental performance.
AU  - Power,M
AU  - Seneci,CA
AU  - Thompson,AJ
AU  - Yang,GZ
DO  - 10.1109/MARSS.2017.8001946
PB  - IEEE
PY  - 2017///
TI  - Modelling & characterization of a compliant tethered microgripper for microsurgical applications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MARSS.2017.8001946
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/52201
ER  -
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