Wireless devices move in the arteries

Researchers at Montreal Polytechnic Institute have made the world's first breakthrough in technology that could upset medical science. They have moved a wireless device inside the arteries of an animal.

Prof. Sylvain Martel at his lab

Researchers have manipulated a tiny device traveling at a speed of 10cm / second inside the arteries of animals placed in a magnetic resonance imaging system. The prototype device is a 1.5mm diameter sphere made of ferromagnetic material and controlled by a computer program.

The lab is currently investigating reducing the size of the devices so that they can travel in smaller blood vessels.

Professor Sylvain Martel, the lead author of the study, injecting and manipulating nanoparticles containing about 100,000 square kilometers of blood vessels in the future will help make the surgery less invasive and more accurate, Take them to the tumor, for example.