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Article... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics2023

N-mirror Robot System for Laser Surgery: A Simulation Study.

Guangshen Ma, Weston Ross, Patrick J Codd

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Article in ... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Guangshen MaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University.
Weston RossDepartment of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center.
Patrick J CoddDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University.

Funding

SCH: Overcoming the Intraoperative Data Desert: Biophotonics, Advanced Sensing, and Control for Automated SurgeryR01EB030982 · NIBIB · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CODD, PATRICK · 2020 to 2023
$1.1M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB030982
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated laser surgery with sensor fusion is an important problem in medical robotics since it requires precise control of mirrors used to steer the laser systems. The propagation of the laser beam should satisfy the geometric constraints of the surgical site but the relation between the number of mirrors and the design of the optical path remains an unsolved problem. Furthermore, different types of surgery (e.g. endoscopic vs open surgery) can require different optical designs with varying number of mirrors to successfully steer the laser beam to the tissue. A generalized method for controlling the laser beam in such systems remains an open research question. This paper proposes an analytical model for a laser-based surgical system with an arbitrary number of mirrors, which is referred as an "

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