ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2019
Computer-assisted planning for a concentric tube robotic system in neurosurgery.
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- Automatic Path-Planning Techniques for Minimally Invasive Stereotactic Neurosurgical Procedures-A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Robotic technologies relevant to brain tumor surgery: a bibliometric and knowledge-mapping analysis of global trends and translational frontiers.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Review
- Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Robot for MRI-Guided Intratumoral Therapeutic Delivery.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2026Article
- Design, analysis, and demonstration of the COAST guidewire robot with middle tube rotation for endovascular interventions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions.Proceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · 2022Article
- A simulation study to investigate the use of concentric tube robots for epilepsy surgery.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Multiple objective planning for thermal ablation of liver tumors.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeLaser-induced thermotherapy in the brain is a minimally invasive procedure to denature tumor tissue. However, irregularly shaped brain tumors cannot be treated using existing commercial systems. Thus, we present a new concept for laser-induced thermotherapy using a concentric tube robotic system. The planning procedure is complex and consists of the optimal distribution of thermal laser ablations within a volume as well as design and configuration parameter optimization of the concentric tube robot.
methodsWe propose a novel computer-assisted planning procedure that decomposes the problem into task- and robot-specific planning and uses a multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm with variable length.
resultsThe algorithm determines a Pareto-front of optimal ablation distributions for three patient datasets. It considers multiple objectives and determines optimal robot parameters for multiple trajectories to access the tumor volume.
conclusionsWe prove the effectiveness of our planning procedure to enable the treatment of irregularly shaped brain tumors. Multiple trajectories further increase the applicability of the procedure.
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