Micro-machining technology development for manufacturing of 3D Imaging catheters

这个NSERC-CRD项目的目标是开发微型加工技术，用于制造尺寸小于几毫米并具有微型尺寸特征的微型部件。产品小型化具有许多潜在的优势，例如多种功能、节省重量、空间、成本和生成新功能。在微创医疗设备领域尤其如此，因为更小的设备能够进入体内更多的区域。因此，生物医学应用中的产品小型化大大增加了在各种材料（包括不锈钢，钛，陶瓷，聚合物等）中制造具有微特征的复杂3D部件的需求。在与Colibri技术公司的合作中，NSERC-CRD项目中实现的微加工技术将被应用，特别是用于生物医学3D成像导管的开发。

The objective of this NSERC-CRD project is to develop micro-machining technologies for fabrication of miniature components of size less than a couple of millimeters and with micro-scale features. Product miniaturization has many potential advantages such as multiple functionality, savings in weight, space, cost, and generation of new capabilities. This is particularly true in the minimally invasive medical devices space, as smaller devices are able to access a larger number of regions in the body. As a result, product miniaturization in biomedical applications have dramatically increased the need to fabricate complex 3D parts with micro-features in a diverse set of materials including stainless steel, titanium, ceramics, polymers, etc. In collaboration with Colibri Technologies Inc., the micro-machining technologies realized in this NSERC-CRD project will be applied, in particular, to development of biomedical 3D imaging catheters.