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AB - Vitreous cutters are surgical devices used during vitrectomy to remove the vitreous humor from the eye and replace it with tamponade fluids. The aim of the present work is to assess the performance of the EVA Phaco-vitrectomy System vitreous cutter (Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center (DORC) BV; Zuidland, The Netherlands) used with d ifferent needle sizes and blade shapes. The analysis is based on laboratory measurements of fluid flow performed using the particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique. Keywords: particle image velocimetry (PIV), vitrectomy, vitreous cutter 1. Introduction Vitreous cutters are surgical devices used during vitrectomy to remove the vitreous humor from the eye and replace it with tamponade fluids. A lot of attention has been devoted in recent years to optimize the shape of cutter needles with the aim of improving removal e fficacy without generating excessive mechanical stress on the retina. The amount of mechanical stress on the retina during the vitrectomy procedure depends on the fluid flow generated during vitreous aspiration. Recently, Rossi et al. performed PIV measurements of fluid flow around the tip of various cutter blades and proposed a way of assessing the performance of the vitreous cutter. In par ticular, they propose to evaluate the 
TI - Assessment of the fluid dynamic performance of a vitreous cutter
JF - Modeling and Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology
DO - 10.35119/maio.v2i2.80
DA - 2018-06-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/assessment-of-the-fluid-dynamic-performance-of-a-vitreous-cutter-8TpMz3ssF7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -