In the United States, heart disease is a major cause of death. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), coronary artery disease-causing arterial blockages cause more than 385,000 deaths each year. Today, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States have developed an ultra-fine sensor device that they hope will reduce the number of deaths caused by heart disease.
This subtle device is essentially a 1.4 mm silicon chip that can take real-time 3D images of the heart and coronary arteries and around the blood vessels. Next, based on the measured volume images, this chip can better guide the doctor to perform cardiac surgery and help the doctor remove the blockage in the patient's artery, and can complete these tasks without major surgery.
This chip is actually a device based on catheter style, mainly made by complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This device is also an active pixel sensor, which often appears in mobile phone cameras and web cameras. This device uses an ultrasonic frequency converter to directly process the signals on the device and to transmit more than 100 types of data on the device. This allows the chip to penetrate the entire blood vessel more easily and provide 3D images in real time.
So far, there have been many devices that can take internal images of the heart and arteries and blood vessels, but these devices can only provide images of cross sections, and these images cannot provide the doctor with the best perspective, and therefore cannot be understood to the greatest extent. The situation in their work area. F. LeWitt of Georgia Institute of Technology. Degertekin (F.LeventDegertekin) pointed out in a statement that this ultra-fine sensor device can help doctors see everything in the blood vessels during examinations and operations. Degertkin said: This device will allow cardiovascular doctors to get the information they need so they can see the blockage in the occlusive artery. More importantly, this device can reduce the number of operations to remove occlusions in blood vessels.
At present, researchers related to this device are planning to start testing this device on animals in the near future, and ultimately hope that this device will be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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