ArticleIEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics : a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division2017
MR Safe Robot, FDA Clearance, Safety and Feasibility Prostate Biopsy Clinical Trial.
Article in IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics : a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.
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- Data-driven adaptive needle insertion assist for transperineal prostate interventions.Physics in medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Current State of Robotics in Interventional Radiology.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2023Review
- Motorized template for MRI-guided focal cryoablation of prostate cancer.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2023Article
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- Robot-Assisted Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Targeted versus Systematic Prostate Biopsy; Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cancers · 2023Review
- MR conditional prostate intervention systems and actuations review.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine · 2023Review
- State of the Art and Future Opportunities in MRI-Guided Robot-Assisted Surgery and Interventions.Proceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · 2022Article
- An MR-Conditional Needle Driver for Robot-Assisted Spinal Injections: Design Modifications and Evaluations.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2022Article
- MRI-guided lumbar spinal injections with body-mounted robotic system: cadaver studies.Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies : MITAT : official journal of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy · 2022Article
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Abstract
Compatibility of mechatronic devices with the MR environment has been a very challenging engineering task. After over a decade of developments, we report the successful translation to clinical trials of our MR Safe robot technology. MrBot is a 6-degree-of-freedom, pneumatically actuated robot for transperineal prostate percutaneous access, built exclusively of electrically nonconductive and nonmagnetic materials. Its extensive pre-clinical tests have been previously reported. Here, we present the latest technology developments, an overview of the regulatory protocols, and technically related results of the clinical trial. The FDA has approved the MrBot for the biopsy trial, which was successfully performed in 5 patients. With no trajectory corrections, and no unsuccessful attempts to target a site, the robot achieved an MRI based needle targeting accuracy of 2.55 mm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first robot approved by the FDA for the MR environment. The results confirm that it is possible to perform safe and accurate robotic manipulation in the MRI scanner, and the development of MR Safe robots is no longer a daunting technical challenge.
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