— In order to assist surgeons during surgery on moving organs, e.g. minimally invasive beating heart bypass surgery, a master-slave system which synchronizes surgical instruments...
Thomas Bader, Alexander Wiedemann, Kathrin Roberts...
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has recognized benefits of reduced patient trauma and recovery time. In practice, MIS procedures present a number of challenges due to the loss of ...
Peter Mountney, Danail Stoyanov, Andrew Davison, G...
—This paper presents a novel design and preliminary kinematic analysis of an Insertable Robotic Effector Platform (IREP) for Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery. The IREP robot can ...
Kai Xu 0005, Roger E. Goldman, Jienan Ding, Peter ...
Abstract. In this paper the use of a heart-tracking hand support is proposed to allow coronary artery bypass grafting surgery to take place on the beating heart. This method elimin...
Ana Luisa Trejos, S. E. Salcudean, F. Sassani, Sam...
Shoulder joint replacement, or arthroplasty, is indicated in cases where arthritis or trauma has resulted in severe joint damage that in turn causes increased pain and decreased f...
Charl P. Botha, Peter R. Krekel, Edward R. Valstar...