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Fall 2019
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Conventional extra- and intra-cardiac surgeries need the heart to be arrested and involve connecting the patient to a cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) machine. However, arrested-heart surgery has adverse effects such as the risk...
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2018-01-01
Lingbo Cheng, Mojtaba Sharifi, and Mahdi Tavakoli
Background: Beating-heart intracardiac surgery promises significant benefits for patients compared to cardiopulmonary bypass based procedures. However, the fast motions of the heart introduce serious challenges for surgeons. Methods: In this paper, a new impedance-controlled master-slave...