State of the art and future opportunities in MRI-guided robot-assisted surgery and interventions

H Su, KW Kwok, K Cleary, I Iordachita… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-quality 3-D visualization of target
anatomy, surrounding tissue, and instrumentation, but there are significant challenges in …

Non-metallic MR-guided concentric tube robot for intracerebral hemorrhage evacuation

AL Gunderman, S Sengupta, E Siampli… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: We aim to develop and evaluate an MR-conditional concentric tube robot for
intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) evacuation. Methods: We fabricated the concentric tube …

Modeling and control of an MR-safe pneumatic radial inflow motor and encoder (PRIME)

AL Gunderman, M Azizkhani… - IEEE/ASME …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance (MR) conditional actuators and encoders are the key components for
MR-guided robotic systems. In this article, we present the modeling and control of our MR …

Design of a 6-DoF parallel robotic platform for MRI applications

M Musa, S Sengupta, Y Chen - Journal of Medical Robotics …, 2022 - World Scientific
In this work, the design, analysis, and characterization of a parallel robotic motion
generation platform with 6-degrees of freedom (DoF) for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Fluoroscopy-guided robotic system for transforaminal lumbar epidural injections

C Gao, H Phalen, A Margalit, JH Ma… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an autonomous robotic spine needle injection system using fluoroscopic image-
based navigation. Our system includes patient-specific planning, intra-operative image …

Fully actuated body-mounted robotic system for mri-guided lower back pain injections: Initial phantom and cadaver studies

G Li, NA Patel, Y Wang, C Dumoulin… - IEEE robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter reports the improved design, system integration, and initial experimental
evaluation of a fully actuated body-mounted robotic system for real-time MRI-guided lower …

A magnetic resonance conditional robot for lumbar spinal injection: Development and preliminary validation

D Liu, G Li, S Wang, Z Liu, Y Wang… - … Journal of Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This work presents the design and preliminary validation of a Magnetic Resonance
(MR) conditional robot for lumbar injection for the treatment of lower back pain. Methods This …

An Eye Gaze Controlled Needle Deployment Robot: Design, Modeling and Experimental Evaluation

Z Pan, J Zhu, J Zhang, W Li, G Jia… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-assisted minimally invasive needle percutaneous intervention promotes the biopsy
operation accuracy and speed as well. Yet, Leksell-based needle displacement platform is …

Flexible needle bending model for spinal injection procedures

Y Wang, KW Kwok, K Cleary, RH Taylor… - IEEE robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An in situ needle manipulation technique used by physicians when performing spinal
injections is modeled to study its effect on needle shape and needle tip position. A …

Design of a 6 dof parallel robot for mri-guided interventions

M Musa, S Sengupta, Y Chen - 2021 International Symposium …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, the design, analysis, and characterization of a 6 DoF parallel robot for MRI
guided applications is presented. The primary motivation for developing this robot is to …