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MICCAI
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Robotic Assistance for Ultrasound Guided Prostate Brachytherapy
We present a robotically assisted prostate brachytherapy system and test results in training phantoms. The system consists of a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and a spatially co-reg...
Gabor Fichtinger, Jonathan Fiene, Christopher W. K...
MICCAI
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robotic Assistant for Transperineal Prostate Interventions in 3T Closed MRI
Abstract. Numerous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of imageguided needle-based therapy and biopsy in the management of prostate cancer. The accuracy of traditional prostate ...
Gregory S. Fischer, Simon P. DiMaio, Iulian Iordac...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Modeling of Needle Insertion Forces for Robot-Assisted Percutaneous Therapy
Force information from needle insertions was measured and modeled for use in robot-assisted percutaneous therapies. Data was collected on bovine livers using the Johns Hopkins Uni...
Christina Simone, Allison M. Okamura
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Guiding medical needles using single-point tissue manipulation
— This paper addresses the use of robotic tissue manipulation in medical needle insertion procedures to improve targeting accuracy and to help avoid damaging sensitive tissues. T...
Meysam Torabi, Kris K. Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Vin...
CARS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Robotically assisted ablative treatment guided by freehand 3D ultrasound
Robots can improve the accuracy of image-guided needle placement over traditional free-hand techniques. While many research groups have demonstrated this, widespread clinical adopt...
Emad Boctor, Robert J. Webster III, Michael A. Cho...