Projektnummer

0065373

Zusammenfassung

Endoscopy has transformed the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal diseases. Endoscope design, however, has only marginally changed in the last 40 years rendering them suboptimal tools far from current technology. The project's aim is to re-think endoscopes in an interdisciplinary pilot team of clinician scientists and engineers applying smart materials to reach a new level of multi-functionality, precision and haptic feedback. Further, the participating groups want to establish a new structured interdisciplinarity between medicine and engineering science. The overarching goal...