Medical Robotics

The first generation of surgical robots are already being installed in a number of operating rooms around the world. Robotics is being introduced to medicine because it allows for unprecedented control and precision of surgical instruments in minimally invasive procedures. So far, robots have been used to position an endoscope, perform gallbladder surgery and correct gastroesophogeal reflux and heartburn. The ultimate goal of the robotic surgery field is to design a robot that can be used to perform closed-chest, beating-heart surgery. The use of robotics in surgery will expand over the next decades without any doubt. Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is a revolutionary approach in surgery. In MIS, the operation is performed with instruments and viewing equipment inserted into the body through small incisions created by the surgeon, in contrast to open surgery with large incisions. This minimizes surgical trauma and damage to healthy tissue, resulting in shorter patient recovery time. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the state-of-art, to present new ideas, original results and practical experiences in this expanding area. Nevertheless, many chapters in the book concern advanced research on this growing area. The book provides critical analysis of clinical trials, assessment of the benefits and risks of the application of these technologies. This book is certainly a small sample of the research activity on Medical Robotics going on around the globe as you read it, but it surely covers a good deal of what has been done in the field recently, and as such it works as a valuable source for researchers interested in the involved subjects, whether they are currently “medical roboticists” or not.

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Table of Contents

1. The Learning Curve of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery
   E. Olthof, D. Nio and W.A. Bemelman
   2299 views, 945 downloads
   
2. Basic Study of Appropriate Knot-Tying Force in the Gastrointestinal Tract for Development of Haptic Surgical Robot
   Junya Oguma, Soji Ozawa, Yasuhide Morikawa, Toshiharu Furukawa, Yuko Kitagawa, Masakazu Ueda, Kouhei Ohnishi and Masaki Kitajima
   1834 views, 760 downloads
   
3. Robotic Gastrectomy with Lymphadenectomy for Gastric Cancer
   Casandra Anderson, Joshua Ellenhorn and Alessio Pigazzi
   2060 views, 930 downloads
   
4. Robotic Rectal Cancer Surgery
   Minia Hellan, Joshua Ellenhorn and Alessio Pigazzi
   2241 views, 1174 downloads
   
5. Efficient Non-Invasive Registration with A-Mode Ultrasound in Skull Surgery
   Aleksandra Popovic, Stefan Heger, Axel Follmann, Ting Wu, Martin Engelhardt, Kirsten Schmieder and Klaus Radermacher
   2108 views, 834 downloads
   
6. Camera Holding Robotic Devices in Urology
   Sashi S Kommu and Abhay Rane
   2521 views, 1121 downloads
   
7. Telerobotic Surgery for Right and Sigmoid Colectomy
   Arthur Rawlings and David Crawford
   2340 views, 1122 downloads
   
8. Robotic Assisted Microsurgery (RAMS): Application in Plastic Surgery
   Sanjay Saraf
   3194 views, 1618 downloads
   
9. Prototypic Force Feedback Instrument for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery
   Ulrich Seibold, Bernhard Kuebler and Gerd Hirzinger
   2578 views, 1599 downloads
   
10. "RoboLase": Internet-Accessible Robotic Laser Scissors and Laser Tweezers Microscope Systems
    Linda Z. Shi, Michael W. Berns and Elliot Botvinick
    1916 views, 791 downloads
    
11. Robot Attack on Vascular Surgery
    Petr Stadler
    2000 views, 976 downloads
    
12. Mechanical Error Analysis of Compact Forceps Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgery
    Takashi Suzuki, Yoichi Katayama, Etsuko Kobayashi and Ichiro Sakuma
    1885 views, 790 downloads
    
13. Dental Patient Robot
    Hideaki Takanobu
    1831 views, 726 downloads
    
14. Neuro- and Fascial Anatomy in the Male Pelvis for Robotic Radical Prostatectomy
    Atsushi Takenaka, Ashutosh K. Tewari and Masato Fujisawa
    2201 views, 1000 downloads
    
15. Robotic Assistance in Microvascular Surgery
    M.G.W. van den Heuvel and R.R.W.J. van der Hulst
    1827 views, 820 downloads
    
16. Cooperative Robotic System to Support Surgical Interventions
    Raul A. Castillo Cruces, H. Christian Schneider and Juergen Wahrburg
    1725 views, 720 downloads
    
17. Robotics in General Surgery
    James Wall, Venita Chandra and Thomas Krummel
    5591 views, 2885 downloads
    
18. Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery for Aortoiliac Disease: A Systematic Review
    Jeroen Diks, Denise Nio, Willem Wisselink and Willem Bemelman
    1893 views, 723 downloads
    
19. Robin Heart - Perspectives of Application of Mini Invasive Tools in Cardiac Surgery
    Zbigniew Nawrat and Pawel Kostka
    2507 views, 1275 downloads
    
20. Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Renal and Adrenal Surgery
    Yves Caumartin, Jeffrey Warren and Patrick P.W. Luke
    2191 views, 953 downloads
    
21. The Must-Have in Robotic Heart Surgery: Haptic Feedback
    Eva U. Braun, Hermann Mayer, Alois Knoll, Ruediger Lange and Robert Bauernschmitt
    2102 views, 1052 downloads
    
22. Robot-Assisted Epicardial Ultrasound for Coronary Artery Localization and Anastomosis Quality Assessment in Totally Endoscopic Coronary Bypass Surgery
    Ricardo P.J. Budde, Cornelius Borst, Patricia F.A. Bakker and Paul F. Gruendeman
    1878 views, 728 downloads
    
23. Image Guided Robotic Systems for Focal Ultrasound Based Surgical Applications
    Sunita Chauhan
    2330 views, 1131 downloads
    
24. Robotic Applications in Neurosurgery
    M. Sam Eljamel
    2210 views, 1075 downloads
    
25. Autonomous Virtual Mobile Robot for the Exploration of 3D Medical Images
    Luca Ferrarini, Hans Olofsen, Johan H.C. Reiber and Faiza Admiraal-Behloul
    1839 views, 701 downloads
    
26. Robotic Foregut Surgery
    Daniel T. McKenna and Jon C. Gould
    2083 views, 815 downloads
    
27. Robotic Long Bone Fracture Reduction
    A. E. Graham, S. Q. Xie, K. C. Aw, W. L. Xu and S. Mukherjee
    2486 views, 1011 downloads
    
28. Non-Invasive Estimates of Local Field Potentials for Brain-Computer Interfaces: Theoretical Derivation and Comparison with Direct Intracranial Recordings
    Rolando Grave de Peralta Menendez and Sara L. Gonzalez Andino
    1596 views, 625 downloads
    
29. Motion Tracking for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery
    Martin Groeger, Klaus Arbter and Gerd Hirzinger
    2293 views, 1088 downloads
    
30. Surgical Skills Training For Robotic Assisted Surgery
    Juan D. Hernandez R., Fernando Bello and Ara Darzi
    2148 views, 883 downloads
    
31. Medical Robotics in Cardiac Surgery
    Stephan Jacobs and Volkmar Falk
    2173 views, 883 downloads
    
32. Robotic Neurosurgery
    Karas and Baig
    2307 views, 1050 downloads
    
33. The Use of Software Systems for Visualized Treatment Objectives in Orthognatic Surgery
    Zafer Ozgur Pektas, Beyza Hancioglu Kircelli and Ulkem Cilasun
    2524 views, 1301 downloads
    
34. Intelligent Laparoscopic Assistant Robot through Surgery Task Model: How to Give Intelligence to Medical Robots
    Dong-Soo Kwon, Seong-Young Ko and Jonathan Kim
    2254 views, 833 downloads
    
35. Miniature Robotic Guidance for Spine Surgery
    Y. Barzilay, L. Kaplan and M. Liebergall
    2056 views, 831 downloads
    
36. Nerve Sparing Axillary Dissection Using the da Vinci Surgical System
    Susan M. L. Lim, Cheng-Kiong Kum and Foong-Lian Lam
    2199 views, 968 downloads
    
37. Telemanipulated Long Bone Fracture Reduction
    Ralf Westphal, Simon Winkelbach, Thomas Goesling, Markus Oszwald, Tobias Huefner, Christian Krettek and Friedrich Wahl
    2006 views, 804 downloads