{"id":1114,"date":"2014-11-10T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nus.edu.sg\/biomm\/?page_id=1114"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:10:05","slug":"flexidiamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/teaching\/flexidiamond\/","title":{"rendered":"FlexiDiamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a local copy of the website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flexidiamond.blogspot.sg\/\">http:\/\/flexidiamond.blogspot.sg\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bioeng.nus.edu.sg\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2288\" src=\"http:\/\/bioeng.nus.edu.sg\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo-300x74.jpg\" alt=\"diamondlogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo-300x74.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo-768x188.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo-1024x251.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo-900x221.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo-150x37.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Diamondlogo.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Home-Based Self-Administered Nasopharynscopy<\/h1>\n<h2>Nasopharynscope is a valuable tool in diagnosing Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in patients since 84% of patients display ulcerations.<\/h2>\n<h2>Aim: To provide a home-based, affordable and easy-to-use diagnosing kit for detecting Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma<\/h2>\n<h2>Key features of 5th Generation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Clear viewing with a specially designed camera lens<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Secure extension and contraction lock<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tight fit between nylon strings to ensure good power transmission\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><\/b><b>Diamond cuts to enhance bending capabilities<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Optical zoom of up to 5 mm due to shooting mechanism<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bending Capability: &gt;90 degrees<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<h2>Extension and contraction to evade obstacles<\/h2>\n<h2>Overall Demonstration of Bending and Zooming capability<\/h2>\n<h1>Specifications<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Outer Diameter: 7 mm<\/li>\n<li>Length of extension portion:25 mm<\/li>\n<li>Length of bending segment: 25mm<\/li>\n<li>Minimum inserted length: 11-15 cm<\/li>\n<li>Gear box: 30 by 20 by 30mm<\/li>\n<li>Bending angle: 90 degrees bend per side<\/li>\n<li>Distal tip mechanism: Optical zoom<\/li>\n<li>Material: Polyurethane (Biocompatible)<\/li>\n<li>Stent design: Flexibility<\/li>\n<li>Flexible guiding tube<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Technical Advantages<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Large bending angle<\/li>\n<li>Extending the camera using the spring mechanism to obtain better optical viewing up to 5mm<\/li>\n<li>Endoscope is very flexible with the stent design<\/li>\n<li>Able to control the bending of the body segments using cable driven mechanism<\/li>\n<li>The bending of the endoscope at the entrance can be controlled flexibly by the guiding shaft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The TEAM<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bioeng.nus.edu.sg\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2289\" src=\"http:\/\/bioeng.nus.edu.sg\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20141103_144553\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553-467x350.jpg 467w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20141103_144553.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom Left: Mr Teo Jing Chun, Dr Ren Hongliang, Mr Un Weiyang, Miss Soh Yan Bing, Mr Ong Jun Hao Edmund<br \/>\nForeground: Mr Yeow Bok Seng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a local copy of the website:\u00a0http:\/\/flexidiamond.blogspot.sg\/ Home-Based Self-Administered Nasopharynscopy Nasopharynscope is a valuable tool in diagnosing Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in patients since 84% of patients display ulcerations. Aim: To provide a home-based, affordable and easy-to-use diagnosing kit for detecting Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Key features of 5th Generation Clear viewing with\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/teaching\/flexidiamond\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,37,38],"tags":[47,58,11],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bn3101","category-teaching","category-fyp","tag-47","tag-continuum","tag-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}