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Needle Type of Hybrid Temperature Probe for Both Diagnosis and Treatment of Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome

근골격계 통증질환의 진단과 치료를 위한 주사바늘형 복합온도 프로브의 개발

  • Nam, Sung-Ki (School of Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Hyung-Il (Department of Medical system Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Byun, Chang-Ho (School of Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Sun-Kyu (School of Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 남성기 (광주과학기술원 기전공학부) ;
  • 김형일 (광주과학기술원 의료시스템학과) ;
  • 변창호 (광주과학기술원 기전공학부) ;
  • 이선규 (광주과학기술원 기전공학부)
  • Received : 2014.02.26
  • Accepted : 2014.03.17
  • Published : 2014.04.01
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Abstract

This paper describes the development of needle type probe that measures temperature and injects medicine for both diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal pain syndrome (MPS). The size of trigger points is from several micrometers to millimeter. Therefore, it is required to develop a medical device that is capable of not only finding the trigger points by temperature measurement, but also injecting medicine at the exact location for treatment. To challenge these difficulties, thermocouple was fabricated on the surface of a needle using metal deposition process. Special type of stainless-constantan thermocouple was achieved from the stainless body of a needle itself and deposited constantan metal film. In particular, parylene coating enables to limit the temperature sensitive area to the end of the needle tip. Fabricated needle type probe produces $3.25mV/^{\circ}C$ of thermoelectric sensitivity and compared its performance with commercial T-type thermocouple in animal muscle sample.

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