Design and analysis of a novel articulated drive mechanism for multifunctional NOTES robot

T Shen, CA Nelson… - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents a novel articulated drive mechanism (ADM) for a multifunctional natural
orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) robotic manipulator. It consists mainly of …

Computational fluid dynamics evaluation of equivalency in hemodynamic alterations between driver, integrity, and similar stents implanted into an idealized coronary …

TJ Gundert, RJ Dholakia… - Journal of Medical …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We tested the hypothesis that a slight modification in fabrication from the Driver to the
Integrity stent (Medtronic) results in nearly equivalent distributions of wall shear stress (WSS) …

Preliminary validation testing of a multifunctional NOTES robot

T Shen, S Akbarisamani… - Journal of Medical …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Background Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is an important and
emerging field in surgery. In this method, surgical tools are passed through a natural orifice …