Cenk Cavusoglu, principal investigator, receives grant to create a robotic heart catheter

In order to treat atrial gibrillation, researchers from Case Western reserve Universiy has undertaken a research project. Cenk Cavusoglu will be guiding the research, which has a funding of $1.3 million. The research will be funded by the NIH to develop a prototype.

Cavusoglu's team will be developing a software for the project. The software will enable the control of catheter's move. In the process, a patient will be placed in an MRI machine. Consequently, the magnetic field of the catherer will be paired, with the magnetic field inside the MRI. Cavusoglu has declared that he was particularly interested in the idea of using robotics to control a catheter - inside a pulsing heart. They aim to have a fully working prototype tested in the end of 4 years.

The project will enable a doctor to see inside a heart's landscape in 3D, and in real-time. Within the current technology, the view is only 2-dimensional. Cavusoglu will ease the process, and possibly improve health treatment to those with heart issues.