title: Preliminary design of a SIMO fuzzy controller for steering microparticles inside blood vessels by using a magnetic resonance imaging system.
abstract: In this paper, a Single-Input-Multiple-Output (SIMO) fuzzy controller is designed to drive an upgraded clinical real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system to provide steering forces for an aggregation of ferromagnetic microparticles in the human cardiovascular system according to a pre-set pathway. This kind of endovascular navigation is considered as an important procedure of the catheter-based method for medical treatments against diseases such as some particular types of cancers. The validity of the fuzzy controller has been tested by preliminary simulation results.
authors.affiliation: NanoRobotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada. pengke04@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martel
mesh_terms: D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000737:chemistry; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005246:Feedback; D005290:Ferric Compounds / Q000737:chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D018189:Immunomagnetic Separation / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008846:Micromanipulation / Q000379:methods*; D008863:Microspheres; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D005290:Ferric Compounds