catheter

Image by: Fraunhofer IPT

At this years JEC trade fair in Paris (Hall 1, Stand T18) from March 24 to 26 a new catheter developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, will be presented. They have developed a guide wire made of glass-fiber-reinforced plastic: Because the guide wire is made of plastic the imaging can be performed by magnetic resonance tomography instead of computer tomography,” says IPT scientist Adrian Schütte.

So will we loose our nice fluoroscopic images from our beloved C-arm systems? We will see …
The complete press release can be found here.