Flinders Biomedical Engineering Medical Device Research Smart Catheter

Medical Device Research - Smart Catheter

Research into a smart catheter is being undertaken by Flinders Biomedical Engineering Group in collaboration with

Gino Saccone, General & Digestive Surgery, Flinders University School of Medicine
Flinders University School of Informatics and Engineering

Funded by:

Industrial Affiliate Program (IAP) grants
Flinders Small Grants, and
FBE commercial income

Publications

Pallotta OJ, Saccone GTP, Woolford RE. Bio-sensor system discriminating between the biliary and pancreatic ductal systems. Medical &Biological Engineering & Computing, 2006, 44(3):250-255 Abstract (Pdf 21kb)

Pallotta O, Saccone G, Woolford R. The smart catheter: determining catheter location within the biliary and pancreatic ductal systems. Proceedings conference of Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine, EPSM 2004, Nov:99 (Abstract Pdf 81kb)

Allen T. Smart Catheter IAP Technical Report, 2003 (Abstract not available)

Mr Allen bench-testing the prototype Smart Catheter

Updated: July 14, 2006