Force sensing and its application in minimally invasive surgery and therapy: a survey

AL Trejos, RV Patel, MD Naish - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The reduced access conditions of minimally invasive surgery and therapy (MIST) impair or
completely eliminate the feel of tool—tissue interaction forces. Many researchers have been …

Force sensing with 1 mm fiber Bragg gratings for flexible endoscopic surgical robots

W Lai, L Cao, RX Tan, PT Phan, J Hao… - IEEE/ASME …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel force sensor to detect the distal force of tendon-sheath
mechanisms (TSMs) in flexible endoscopic surgical robots. We propose to measure the …

A single-use haptic palpation probe for locating subcutaneous blood vessels in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery

S McKinley, A Garg, S Sen, R Kapadia… - 2015 IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design and evaluation of a novel low-cost palpation probe for Robot assisted
Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS) for localizing subcutaneous blood vessels. It measures …

Intra-operative tumour localisation in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery: A review

M Li, H Liu, A Jiang, LD Seneviratne… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery has many advantages compared to conventional
open surgery and also certain drawbacks: it causes less operative trauma and faster …

Robot-assisted tactile sensing for minimally invasive tumor localization

AL Trejos, J Jayender, MT Perri… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The 10 mm incisions used in minimally invasive cancer surgery prevent the direct palpation
of internal organs, making intraoperative tumor localization difficult. A tactile sensing …

Wireless tissue palpation for intraoperative detection of lumps in the soft tissue

M Beccani, C Di Natali, LJ Sliker… - IEEE Transactions …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In an open surgery, identification of precise margins for curative tissue resection is
performed by manual palpation. This is not the case for minimally invasive and robotic …

Rolling mechanical imaging for tissue abnormality localization during minimally invasive surgery

H Liu, DP Noonan, BJ Challacombe… - IEEE Transactions …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a novel approach for the localization of tissue abnormalities during minimally
invasive surgery using a force-sensitive wheeled probe. The concept is to fuse the …

Rolling indentation probe for tissue abnormality identification during minimally invasive surgery

H Liu, J Li, X Song, LD Seneviratne… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel optical fiber-based rolling indentation probe designed to
measure the stiffness distribution of a soft tissue while rolling over the tissue surface during …

Fiber optics tactile array probe for tissue palpation during minimally invasive surgery

H Xie, H Liu, S Luo, LD Seneviratne… - 2013 IEEE/RSJ …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel fiber optic tactile probe designed for tissue palpation during
minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The probe consists of 3× 4 tactile sensing elements at 2.6 …

An optical tactile array probe head for tissue palpation during minimally invasive surgery

H Xie, H Liu, LD Seneviratne… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel tactile probe head designed for tissue palpation during
minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The probe head uses fiber optics and consists of 14 tactile …