Optimization Design of Electrically-Induced Bubble Device for Intraocular Treatment

Abstract

Retinal vein occlusion is a disease that causes vision disorder due to occlusion of the retinal vein which is one kind of micro-vascular spreading to the fundus. Most of the current treatments are aimed at suppressing symptoms caused by vascular occlusion. However, there is no method targeting the blood clots which is the root of the disease. In this study, we focused on the impact pressure of micro-jet which is generated by the collapse of the electrical-induced bubbles. This pressure can be worked as local and minimally invasive physical stimuli from the outside of the blood vessel to resolve the vascular occlusion itself. For the current the optimizing design is proposed by evaluating the electric and fluidic field using model experiment and calculations. In this paper, we proposed the electrofluidc optimization design considering the electric double layer capacitor(EDLC).