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Boston Scientific: Neurovascular Access Catheter

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Project Overview

The brain contains an extremely tortuous anatomy making the delivery of devices to the distal neurovascular vessels a challenge for physicians. The team is to construct a neurovascular catheter for distal brain navigation to support specifically blood clot irrigation for ischemic stroke. The project includes evaluating competitive devices, specifically the SOFIA intermediate catheter by MicroVention Terumo, building prototypes with equal or enhanced performance, and testing the relative performance of the final design/prototype. The final prototype of our neurovascular catheter will contain a newly designed distal tip that maximizes longitudinal stiffness while matching the SOFIA catheters trackability. The final goal of our project, following a full academic year of design, is too have a functioning catheter to be evaluated in an animal model.

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Team members from left to right: Leo, Elise, Ashley, Ryan
Team members from left to right: Leo, Elise, Ashley, Ryan

Contact Information

Team Members

  • Ashley Zagaros - Team Leader
  • Elise Gendreau - Communicator
  • Ryan Yost - BSAC & BWIG
  • Leo Steiner - BPAG

Advisor and Client

  • Prof. Justin Williams - Advisor
  • Mr. Alex Wiedmann - Client
  • Joe Adriaens - Alternate Contact
  • Kim Robertson - Alternate Contact

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