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Tiny Chip can Help Clear Arteries Without Need for Major Surgery

by Kathy Jones on Feb 25 2014 8:49 PM

 Tiny Chip can Help Clear Arteries Without Need for Major Surgery
Taking real time 3D images from inside the heart, coronary arteries and surrounding blood vessels is now easy thanks to a new 1.4-millimeter silicon chip developed by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology. This chip can help doctors clear your arteries without the need for major surgery.
The device using volumetric imaging, could better guide doctors through heart surgery and allow them to unclog some patients' arteries without them undergoing major surgery, the Verge reported.

The catheter-based device made with CMOS technology is an active pixel sensor, which is common in cell phone cameras and webcams.

The chip uses ultrasound transducers to process signals directly on the device, which allows info from more than a hundred elements on the device to be transmitted using 13 tiny cables.

Source-ANI


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