Title :
Real-time epidural anesthesia guidance using optical coherence tomography needle probe
Author :
Qinggong Tang ; Chia-Pin Liang ; Wu, Kaijie ; Sandler, Anthony ; Yu Chen
Author_Institution :
Fischell Dept. of Bioeng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
Epidural anesthesia is one of the most widely used anesthesia methods. We developed a small hand-held OCT forward-imaging needle device for real-time epidural anesthesia surgery guidance and demonstrated its feasibility through ex vivo experiments.
Keywords :
epidemics; needles; optical tomography; surgery; ex vivo experiments; needle probe; optical coherence tomography; real-time epidural anesthesia surgery guidance; small hand-held OCT forward-imaging needle device; Anesthesia; Biomedical optical imaging; Needles; Optical imaging; Real-time systems; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
