- Title Information
- Title
- Design and Analysis of a New Minimally Invasive Spinal Cord Stimulation Device
- Type of Resource
- text
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Marquez, Luis
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Srivastava, Vikas
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Advisor
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Engineering: Fluid, Thermal, and Chemical Processes
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 7, 23 p.
- digitalOrigin
- born digital
- Note:
thesis
- Thesis (Sc. M.)--Brown University, 2020
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- Shape memory polymers are polymers that respond to an environmental stimuli and can
recover to their original shape from a stable temporary shape. They have the ability to
recover from large deformations due to a wide range of stimuli in general. The types of
stimuli range from electric, magnetic, pH, and temperature. In this thesis, the use of a
bio-compatible and thermally responsive shape memory polymers in minimally invasive
percutaneous spinal cord stimulation is investigated. This idea was originally conceived in
detail by Dr. Vikas Srivastava and Dr. Albert Telfeian. This design increases coverage in
the spinal column with the use of percutaneous leads that are smaller in diameter and
requrie less invasive surgery. In our design, derived from the crosslinking between
polymer chains, the properties of the shape memory polymer when coupled with the added
stiffness of a super elastic metal alloy help bend various parts of the percutaneous leads.
This design concept results in an increase in the dorsal region coverage of the spinal cord
stimulus.
- Subject
- Topic
- Spinal Cord Stimulation
- Language
- Language Term (ISO639-2B)
- English
- Record Information
- Record Content Source (marcorg)
- RPB
- Record Creation Date
(encoding="iso8601")
- 20200720
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/0btr-4z43
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