Towards Alternative Approaches for Coupling of a Soft Robotic Sleeve to the Heart

Abstract Efficient coupling of soft robotic cardiac assist devices to the external surface of the heart is crucial to augment cardiac function and represents a hurdle to translation of this technology. In this work, we compare various fixation strategies for local and global coupling...

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Main Authors: Horvath, Markus A, Varela, Claudia E, Dolan, Eimear B, Whyte, William, Monahan, David S, Payne, Christopher J, Wamala, Isaac A, Vasilyev, Nikolay V, Pigula, Frank A, Mooney, David J, Walsh, Conor J, Duffy, Garry P, Roche, Ellen T
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131413