Performance Evaluation of a Cooperative Manipulation Microsurgical Assistant Robot Applied to Stapedotomy

Abstract. This paper reports the development of a full-scale instrumented model of the human ear that permits quantitative evaluation of the utility of a microsurgical assistant robot in the surgical procedure of stapedotomy.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: MICCAI
• Authors: Peter J. Berkelman, Daniel L. Rothbaum, Jaydeep Roy, Sam Lang, Louis L. Whitcomb, Gregory D. Hager, Patrick S. Jensen, Eugene de Juan, Russell H. Taylor, John K. Niparko
• Keywords: Full-scale Instrumented Model, Medical Imaging, MICCAI 2001, Microsurgical Assistant Robot, Quantitative Evaluation