Braid-balls suitable for aneurysm occlusion and/or parent vessel occlusion/sacrifice (e.g., in treating neurovascular defects) are disclosed. Especially for aneurysm treatment, but also for either one of the aforementioned treatments, the form of the ball is very important. In particular, the density of the device is paramount in applications where braid itself is intended to moderate or stop blood flowallowing thrombosis within a volume formed by the ball.

In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a catheter having a catheter body, a light emitter disposed at a distal end of the catheter body, and a fluid conduit coupleable to a source of fluid. The fluid conduit configured to discharge fluid from the source via the conduit and out a distal end of the catheter body. A spacing member is disposed at the distal end of the catheter body and can be moved between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, the spacing member is disposed about the light emitter. The spacing member is at least partially transmissive and/or transflective of light emitted from the light emitter. The apparatus configured to be inserted at least partially into a body lumen, to discharge fluid into the body lumen, and to emit light from the light emitter to illuminate an interior wall of the body lumen.

Various embodiments of a multifunctional ferromagnetic fiber robot (MFFR) are described. According to one embodiment, the MFFR includes a central core and a ferromagnetic layer around the central core. The central core can include a waveguide, an electrode, and a hollow channel in one example. The ferromagnetic layer can include magnetic microparticles distributed in a thermoplastic elastomer. The waveguide can include silica or polymer waveguides. The electrode can include high-melting-point or low-melting-point metal electrodes. The MFFR includes or exhibits magnetic actuation properties that are activated in response to an external magnetic field. The magnetic actuation properties are adjustable based on a cross-sectional geometry of the central core and a particle loading concentration of the magnetic microparticles.

A computer-implemented method of predicting a status of an embolization procedure on an aneurism, includes: receiving (S110) projection image data (110) representing temporal blood flow in a region of the anatomy including the aneurism during the embolization procedure; inputting (S120) the received projection image data (110) into a neural network (120) trained to predict temporal blood flow (130), wherein the neural network (120) is trained to predict temporal blood flow (130) using training data (140) representing temporal blood flow in a region of the anatomy that does not include an aneurism; and in response to the inputting (S120): generating (S130) an output (160) indicative of the status of the embolization procedure based on the predicted temporal blood flow.