ArticleIEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics : a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division2017
Robotic System for MRI-guided Focal Laser Ablation in the Prostate.
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- Advancements and Challenges in Robot-Assisted Bone Processing in Neurosurgical Procedures.Neurospine · 2024Article
- Treatment Planning Strategies for Interstitial Ultrasound Ablation of Prostate Cancer.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Open Source MR-Safe Pneumatic Radial Inflow Motor and Encoder (PRIME): Design and Manufacturing Guidelines.... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics · 2023Article
- MR conditional prostate intervention systems and actuations review.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine · 2023Review
- Kinematic and mechanical modelling of a novel 4-DOF robotic needle guide for MRI-guided prostate intervention.Biomedical engineering advances · 2022Article
- Fluid Lubrication and Cooling Effects in Diamond Grinding of Human Iliac Bone.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- MR-Conditional Actuations: A Review.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2020Review
- MRI-guided robotic arm drives optogenetic fMRI with concurrent CaNature communications · 2019Article
- MR-conditional steerable needle robot for intracerebral hemorrhage removal.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2019Article
- Magnetic Resonance Conditional Microinjector.Journal of imaging · 2018Article
- MRI-Guided Robotically Assisted Focal Laser Ablation of the Prostate Using Canine Cadavers.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2018Article
- Characterization and Control of a Pneumatic Motor for MR-conditional Robotic Applications.IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics : a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division · 2017Article
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Abstract
MRI-conditional robotic platforms have proved to be an effective approach for image guided interventions. In this study, a computer-assisted, pneumatically-actuated robot was designed, built, and tested for MRI-guided prostate cancer focal laser ablation (FLA). The robotic manipulator provides two active planar degrees of freedom (DoFs) by using a customized CoreXY frame, and one passive rotational DoF. A remote insertion mechanism improves the surgical workflow by keeping the patients inside the scanner during needle insertion. The robotic manipulator was tested in a 3T MR scanner to evaluate its MR compliance, and the results demonstrated that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) variation was less than 8%. The in-scanner template positioning accuracy test demonstrated that the manipulator achieves high targeting accuracy with a mean error of 0.46 mm and a standard deviation of 0.25mm. Phantom studies have shown that the needle insertion accuracy of the manipulator is within 2mm (Mean = 1.7mm, StD = 0.2mm).
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