근골격계 통증질환의 진단과 치료를 위한 주사바늘형 복합온도 프로브의 개발

다국어 초록 (Multilingual 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 3.25 mV/℃ of thermoelectric sensitivity and compared its performance with commercial T-type thermocouple in animal muscle sample.

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