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ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2018

Recent progress on micro- and nano-robots: towards

Ben Wang, Yabin Zhang, Li Zhang

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Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Medical Micro/Nanorobots in Precision Medicine.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020
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  17. Ultrasound-Guided Wireless Tubular Robotic Anchoring System.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2020
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  18. Nano-and Micromotors Designed for Cancer Therapy.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  20. Frontiers of Medical Micro/Nanorobotics:Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ben Wang *Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Yabin Zhang *Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Li ZhangDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID30050781
PMCPMC6037952

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