Professor, Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering Director, Center for Targeted Neural Networks Reconstruction, National Science Challenge Initiatives Director, DGIST-ETH Microrobotics Research Center Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Hongsoo Choi is a Professor & Chair in the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST). Prof. Choi also the Director at the Center for Targeted Neural Networks Reconstruction of the National Science Challenge Initiatives and Co‐Director of DGIST‐ETH Microrobotics Research Center at DGIST. He has been a Founder and technical advisor of ImSystems since 2019. I received several awards, including the Prime Minister’s Commendation for Science, Information and Communication Day of Korea in 2020, the National Intellectual Property Award (Co-chairman’s award) by the Presidential Council on Intellectual Property of Korea in 2019, and the Prize of the State of Geneva at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, Switzerland in 2019. I received M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees from the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, United States. His research interest includes micro/nanorobotic system, Robotic and magnetic-assisted intervention neural engineering, magnetic field generating (MFG) systems, BioMEMS, piezoelectric MEMS devices, and biochip for biomedical applications.
Electromagnetically Controllable Microrobotic Guidewire for Robotic Vascular Procedures: In Vitro and In Vivo
Abstract Robotic magnetic systems offer potential advantages in interventional procedures, such as precise and fast control of magnetically steerable interventional tools (e.g., guidewires and catheters) in tortuous vessels. Recently, a robotic magnetic interventional system named ‘Electromagnetically Controllable Microrobotic Interventional System (ECMIS)’ that enables remote manipulation and active steering of guidewires for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases was developed. The ECMIS consists of a microrobotic guidewire in which a soft magnetically steerable robot (MSR) is attached to the tip of a guidewire, a human-scale electromagnetic control system, a biplane X-ray imaging unit, and a master-slave system. The flexible magnetic MSR at the tip of the guidewire exploits magnetic torques for active guidewire steering upon magnetic actuation. The microrobotic guidewire can be advanced and retracted by the master-slave system in a teleoperated manner. The ECMIS may open new avenues in multiple areas of vascular interventions.