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ICRA
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Needles are commonly used in medical practice as a minimally invasive means to reach subsurface targets for diagnosis or therapy delivery. Recent results indicate that steerabl...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract— Insertion velocity, tip asymmetry, and shaft diameter may influence steerable needle insertion paths in soft tissue. In this paper we examine the effects of these vari...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract— Flexible needles with bevel tips are being developed as useful tools for minimally invasive surgery and percutaneous therapy. When such a needle is inserted into soft t...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
IJRR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We develop a new motion planning algorithm for a variant of a Dubins car with binary left/right steering and apply it to steerable needles, a new class of flexible beveltip medica...