title: Use of 3D Potential Field and an Enhanced Breadth-first Search Algorithms for the Path Planning of Microdevices Propelled in the Cardiovascular System.
abstract: Potential field algorithms often used in path finding applications on a 2D plane are expanded onto a 3D map trajectories for navigation planning of a microdevice designed to be propelled through the cardiovascular system using magnetic gradients generated by a clinical MRI system. This system assembles a 3D reconstruction of a cardiovascular system through magnetic resonance angiography images. The method also allows the extraction of the physiological properties of the given network.
authors.affiliation: NanoRobotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, &#201;cole Polytechnique de Montr&#233;al (EPM), Campus of the Universit&#233; de Montr&#233;al, Montr&#233;al (Qu&#233;bec) Canada.
authors.forename: Wael
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sabra
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khouzam
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chanu
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martel