ArticleThe International journal of robotics research2015
Tissue removal inside the beating heart using a robotically delivered metal MEMS tool.
Article in The International journal of robotics research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
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.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Towards a Steerable Neurosurgical Robot for Debulking of Brain Mass Lesions.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2025Article
- A multifunctional soft robot for cardiac interventions.Science advances · 2023Article
- Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions.Proceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · 2022Article
- Modeling Tube Clearance and Bounding the Effect of Friction in Concentric Tube Robot Kinematics.IEEE transactions on robotics : a publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society · 2019Article
- Combining Differential Kinematics and Optical Flow for Automatic Labeling of Continuum Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
A novel robotic tool is proposed to enable the surgical removal of tissue from inside the beating heart. The tool is manufactured using a unique metal MEMS process that provides the means to fabricate fully assembled devices that incorporate micron-scale features in a millimeter scale tool. The tool is integrated with a steerable curved concentric tube robot that can enter the heart percutaneously through peripheral vessels. Incorporating both irrigation and aspiration, the tissue removal system is capable of extracting substantial amounts of tissue under teleoperated control by first morselizing it and then transporting the debris out of the heart through the lumen of the robot. Tool design and robotic integration are described, and ex vivo and in vivo large animal experimental results are presented.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.