Endoscopic ultrasound‐guided percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
Digestive Endoscopy, 2020 Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is the method of choice for feeding and nutritional support in patients with a normal gastrointestinal function who require long‐term enteral nutrition. We report our experience regarding an alternative endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)‐guided PEG technique.
Sandra Baile‐Maxía +8 more
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Towards automated visual flexible endoscope navigation [PDF]
, 2013 Background:\ud The design of flexible endoscopes has not changed significantly in the past 50 years. A trend is observed towards a wider application of flexible endoscopes with an increasing role in complex intraluminal therapeutic procedures.
Broeders, I.A.M.J. +2 more
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Scanning and Actuation Techniques for Cantilever-Based Fiber Optic Endoscopic Scanners—A Review
Sensors, 2021 Endoscopes are used routinely in modern medicine for in-vivo imaging of luminal organs. Technical advances in the micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and optical fields have enabled the further miniaturization of endoscopes, resulting in the ability ...
Mandeep Kaur +2 more
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Tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in in vitro biofilms to high level peracetic acid disinfection [PDF]
, 2017 Biofilm has been suggested as a cause of disinfection failures in flexible endoscopes where no lapses in the decontamination procedure can be identified. To test this theory, the activity of peracetic acid (PAA), one of the commonly used disinfectants in
Akinbobola, Ayorinde +4 more
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Automatic Registration of Anatomical Structures of Stereo-Endoscopic Point Clouds
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 In image-guided surgery, imaging systems such as (stereo-)endoscopes allow intra-operative 3D reconstructions in form of point clouds. However, endoscopes provide only a narrow field of view, resulting in a confined point cloud. In this paper, we present
Beckmann Sophie +4 more
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Does the Reprocessing of Endoscopes Have to Take Place Immediately after Pre-Cleaning? A First Evaluation [PDF]
Clinical Endoscopy, 2021 Background/Aims The recommendations on the time interval between pre-cleaning and reprocessing of endoscopes differ in international guidelines, with a low level of evidence.
Vanessa M Eichel +4 more
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Flexible lensless endoscope with a conformationally invariant multi-core fiber [PDF]
, 2019 The lensless endoscope represents the ultimate limit in miniaturization of imaging tools: an image can be transmitted through a (multi-mode or multi-core) fiber by numerical or physical inversion of the fiber's pre-measured transmission matrix.
Andresen, Esben Ravn +7 more
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JGH Open, 2023 Background and Aim Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence assay is widely adopted in the West to allow rapid evaluation of endoscopes for bacteriologic/biologic residue, but this practice is rarely adopted in Asia.
Ada S F Chan +3 more
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Efficacy of a novel channel-cleaning ball brush for endoscope reprocessing: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Clinical Endoscopy, 2022 Background/Aims Endoscopic channels are difficult to clean and can cause infection transmission. We examined the effectiveness of a newly developed channel-cleaning ball brush (BB), which is sucked into the endoscopic channel and scrapes and cleans the ...
Kwang Hyun Chung +5 more
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Smartphone microendoscopy for high resolution fluorescence imaging [PDF]
, 2016 High resolution optical endoscopes are increasingly used in diagnosis of various medical conditions of internal organs, such as the gastrointestinal tracts, but they are too expensive for use in resource-poor settings. On the other hand, smartphones with
Hong, Xiangqian +3 more
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