Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0347716

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0347716

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Optical fibre devices for sideways delivery of laser light during keyhole surgery. Mulitmode optical fibres are typically used to deliver high power laser light which is emitted from the end of the fibre to irradiate tissue during surgery. For intravenous delivery of laser light in the treatment of cardiac fibrillation (heart flutter) we require a sideways-directed illuminating beam. However reliable methods of delivering high power laser light in a sideways-directed beam are not currently available. Using the ultraviolet laser fibre processing expertise already developed at Macquarie University, we propose to develop and characterise novel fibre-based devices which would allow controllable delivery of light sideways.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2002

End Date: 05-07-2004

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $56,066.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Optical Physics | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Medical Physics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Surgical methods and procedures | Physical sciences

Other Keywords

Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Medical Physics | Optical Physics | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Physical sciences | Surgical methods and procedures

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