[HTML][HTML] Tactile sensing for minimally invasive surgery: Conventional methods and potential emerging tactile technologies

W Othman, ZHA Lai, C Abril… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As opposed to open surgery procedures, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small skin
incisions to insert a camera and surgical instruments. MIS has numerous advantages such …

Development of a Fiber Bragg Grating-Based Force Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery–Case Study of Ex-Vivo Tissue Palpation

L Gan, W Duan, TO Akinyemi, W Du… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, a 1-D distal force sensor design is proposed for minimally invasive surgery
(MIS) based on the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing principle. The sensor is made with a …

Development of a distal tri-axial force sensor for minimally invasive surgical palpation

Z Tang, S Wang, M Li, C Shi - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current study highlights the development of a novel and high-accuracy Fiber Bragg
Grating (FBG)-enabled tri-axial distal force sensor for minimally invasive surgical palpation …

A high-sensitivity tactile sensor array based on fiber Bragg grating sensing for tissue palpation in minimally invasive surgery

T Li, C Shi, H Ren - IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel and high-sensitivity optical tactile sensor array based on fiber
Bragg grating (FBG) to explore and localize tissue abnormalities during tissue palpation in a …

A high-precision and miniature fiber Bragg grating-based force sensor for tissue palpation during minimally invasive surgery

C Lv, S Wang, C Shi - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents a novel Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)-based palpation force sensor to
explore tissue abnormalities during minimally invasive surgery. The proposed sensor design …

[HTML][HTML] Vibro-Acoustic sensing of instrument interactions as a potential source of texture-related information in robotic palpation

T Sühn, N Esmaeili, SY Mattepu, M Spiller, A Boese… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The direct tactile assessment of surface textures during palpation is an essential component
of open surgery that is impeded in minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery. When …

Fault-Tolerant Six-Axis FBG Force/Moment Sensing for Robotic Interventions

T Li, J Guo, H Zheng, S Wang, L Qiu… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based six-axis force/moment (F/M) tactile sensor with the
capability of nonlinear decoupling, fault-tolerant, and temperature compensation (TC) is …

Image-based optical miniaturized three-axis force sensor for cardiac catheterization

Y Noh, H Liu, S Sareh, DS Chathuranga… - IEEE Sensors …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to determine the cause of and to treat an abnormal heart rhythm,
electrophysiological studies and ablation procedures of the heart sensorized catheters are …

[HTML][HTML] Vibro-acoustic sensing of tissue-instrument-interactions allows a differentiation of biological tissue in computerised palpation

T Sühn, N Esmaeili, M Spiller, M Costa, A Boese… - Computers in Biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background: The shift towards minimally invasive surgery is associated with a significant
reduction of tactile information available to the surgeon, with compensation strategies …

Reaction force mapping by 3-axis tactile sensing with arbitrary angles for tissue hard-inclusion localization

T Li, A Pan, H Ren - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although robot-assisted diagnosis and minimally invasive surgery (MIS) brings distinct
benefits, deficient multi-dimensional force feedback remains a noteworthy limitation and …