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Many vascular system problems stem from insufficient blood return flow to the heart. One of the main causes is a blockage within veins or arteries known as a blood clot, or thrombus. This can occur after trauma, surgery, or other phenomenological reasons. Each year in the U.S. m…

Needle-based intervention insertion is one of the common surgical techniques used in many diagnostic and therapeutic percutaneous procedures. The success of such procedures highly depends on the accuracy of needle placement at target locations. An active needle has the potential…

Development and characterization of Shape Memory alloys (SMAs) has taken big steps over half a century in understanding the role of alloying components, processing of alloys and microstructural optimization to real life engineering application. This has aided in the growth of ap…