… minimally invasive surgery (Section 3). The first category includes interventions such as
biopsy… The second category consists of laparoscopy and minimally invasive cardiac surgery. The …

… Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has the advantages of performing surgical procedures with
minimal … A follow-up study of needle biopsy reported that about 14% of biopsy results were …

… the screw mechanism and harvest biopsy tissue; therefore, the … by the magnetic field is used
to steer the capsule’s posture, … CE to achieve minimally invasive diagnosis. This has not yet …

… because they offer a minimally invasive method for traversing … through the airways and
collecting a point cloud of the airway… of automation for lung nodule biopsy, enabling our system to …

… technologies for heart biopsy, super-selective tissue access, and stents. This work extends
these technologies with … the application of micro and nanofabrication technologies. Various …

… in clinical practices such as biopsies, regional anesthesia, blood … surgical assistance method
for minimally invasive puncture for … , predicting deflection, steering the needle through US …

… for more accurate and less invasive biopsies for upper urinary tract … Using an external
magnetic field, we can also remotely steer … the probability of successfully collecting tissue from an …

… esophagus is to perform two endoscopies with biopsy within one year of the initial diagnosis
… One example of a developed power harvesting scheme is generating current from stomach …

… and force acting on the permanent magnet, steering the capsule and pushing it along the …
has been presented with a biopsy function for collecting sample tissue from a designated …

… cell analysis on a lab-on-a-chip platform and potentially minimally-to-noninvasive surgery. …
In Figure 3.4 (a), we could steer the gripper to access different locations in the tissue slice …