Accurate tissue differentiation during orthopedic and neurological surgeries is critical, given
that such surgeries involve operations on or in the vicinity of vital neurovascular structures …

Excessive drilling forces can result in drill breakage, bone breakthrough, and thermal
necrosis during bone drilling process. However, the effect of drilling process parameters …

The decompressive laminectomy is a common treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis.
Generally, surgeons use grinding tools to remove laminae under the guidance of …

Pedicle drilling is an important step in pedicle screw fixation and the most significant
challenge in this operation is how to determine a key point in the transition region between …

Abstract Background and Objective Conventional surgical drill bits suffer from several
drawbacks, including extreme heat generation, breakage, jam, and undesired breakthrough …

Manual bone drilling in orthopedic surgical operations may cause injury to patient tissues if
the drill bit continues to progress after exiting the bone. In this study, a new bone …

Breakthrough detection of robotic drilling process for orthopedic surgery is proposed.
Features are extracted from Power Spectral Density (PSD) with Welch methods from …

The mechanical behaviour of human bone tissue subject to drilling has been recently
reviewed due to its increased clinical interest. However, no published data exist regarding …

Thermal necrosis results fracture problems and implant failure if temperature exceeds 47 C
for one minute during bone drilling. To solve this problem, this work studied a new thermal …

In order to fix a fracture in osteosynthesis, it is necessary to attach screws bicortically to the
bone. The length of the screws must be selected correctly in 1-mm increments: otherwise …