Medical Robotics

Vanja Bozovic

doi:10.5772/54929

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Medical Robotics

Edited by Vanja Bozovic

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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Medical RoboticsEdited by Vanja Bozovic

Published: January 1st 2008

DOI: 10.5772/54929

ISBN: 978-3-902613-18-9

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39 Crossref Citations

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Open access peer-reviewed 1. The Learning Curve of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery By E. Olthof, D. Nio and W.A. Bemelman		2873
Open access peer-reviewed 2. The Must-Have in Robotic Heart Surgery: Haptic Feedback By Eva U. Braun, Hermann Mayer, Alois Knoll, Ruediger Lange and Robert Bauernschmitt		3352
Open access peer-reviewed 3. Robot-Assisted Epicardial Ultrasound for Coronary Artery Localization and Anastomosis Quality Assessment in Totally Endoscopic Coronary Bypass Surgery By Ricardo P.J. Budde, Cornelius Borst, Patricia F.A. Bakker and Paul F. Gruendeman		2028
Open access peer-reviewed 4. Image Guided Robotic Systems for Focal Ultrasound Based Surgical Applications By Sunita Chauhan		3263
Open access peer-reviewed 5. Robotic Applications in Neurosurgery By M. Sam Eljamel		7157
Open access peer-reviewed 6. Autonomous Virtual Mobile Robot for the Exploration of 3D Medical Images By Luca Ferrarini, Hans Olofsen, Johan H.C. Reiber and Faiza Admiraal-Behloul		2122
Open access peer-reviewed 7. Robotic Foregut Surgery By Daniel T. McKenna and Jon C. Gould		2533
Open access peer-reviewed 8. Robotic Long Bone Fracture Reduction By A. E. Graham, S. Q. Xie, K. C. Aw, W. L. Xu and S. Mukherjee		2766
Open access peer-reviewed 9. Non-Invasive Estimates of Local Field Potentials for Brain-Computer Interfaces: Theoretical Derivation and Comparison with Direct Intracranial Recordings By Rolando Grave de Peralta Menendez and Sara L. Gonzalez Andino		2284
Open access peer-reviewed 10. Motion Tracking for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery By Martin Groeger, Klaus Arbter and Gerd Hirzinger		2987
Open access peer-reviewed 11. Surgical Skills Training For Robotic Assisted Surgery By Juan D. Hernandez R., Fernando Bello and Ara Darzi		2623
Open access peer-reviewed 12. Medical Robotics in Cardiac Surgery By Stephan Jacobs and Volkmar Falk		2519
Open access peer-reviewed 13. Robotic Neurosurgery By Karas and Baig		3297
Open access peer-reviewed 14. The Use of Software Systems for Visualized Treatment Objectives in Orthognatic Surgery By Zafer Ozgur Pektas, Beyza Hancioglu Kircelli and Ulkem Cilasun		5021
Open access peer-reviewed 15. Intelligent Laparoscopic Assistant Robot through Surgery Task Model: How to Give Intelligence to Medical Robots By Dong-Soo Kwon, Seong-Young Ko and Jonathan Kim		2741
Open access peer-reviewed 16. Miniature Robotic Guidance for Spine Surgery By Y. Barzilay, L. Kaplan and M. Liebergall		2632
Open access peer-reviewed 17. Nerve Sparing Axillary Dissection Using the da Vinci Surgical System By Susan M. L. Lim, Cheng-Kiong Kum and Foong-Lian Lam		3515
Open access peer-reviewed 18. Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Renal and Adrenal Surgery By Yves Caumartin, Jeffrey Warren and Patrick P.W. Luke		3037
Open access peer-reviewed 19. Robin Heart - Perspectives of Application of Mini Invasive Tools in Cardiac Surgery By Zbigniew Nawrat and Pawel Kostka		3131
Open access peer-reviewed 20. Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery for Aortoiliac Disease: A Systematic Review By Jeroen Diks, Denise Nio, Willem Wisselink and Willem Bemelman		2098
Open access peer-reviewed 21. Basic Study of Appropriate Knot-Tying Force in the Gastrointestinal Tract for Development of Haptic Surgical Robot By Junya Oguma, Soji Ozawa, Yasuhide Morikawa, Toshiharu Furukawa, Yuko Kitagawa, Masakazu Ueda, Kouhei Ohnishi and Masaki Kitajima		2190
Open access peer-reviewed 22. Robotic Gastrectomy with Lymphadenectomy for Gastric Cancer By Casandra Anderson, Joshua Ellenhorn and Alessio Pigazzi		3290
Open access peer-reviewed 23. Robotic Rectal Cancer Surgery By Minia Hellan, Joshua Ellenhorn and Alessio Pigazzi		3428
Open access peer-reviewed 24. Efficient Non-Invasive Registration with A-Mode Ultrasound in Skull Surgery By Aleksandra Popovic, Stefan Heger, Axel Follmann, Ting Wu, Martin Engelhardt, Kirsten Schmieder and Klaus Radermacher		2040
Open access peer-reviewed 25. Camera Holding Robotic Devices in Urology By Sashi S Kommu and Abhay Rane		3311
Open access peer-reviewed 26. Telerobotic Surgery for Right and Sigmoid Colectomy By Arthur Rawlings and David Crawford		3230
Open access peer-reviewed 27. Robotic Assisted Microsurgery (RAMS): Application in Plastic Surgery By Sanjay Saraf		5205
Open access peer-reviewed 28. Prototypic Force Feedback Instrument for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery By Ulrich Seibold, Bernhard Kuebler and Gerd Hirzinger		5108
Open access peer-reviewed 29. "RoboLase": Internet-Accessible Robotic Laser Scissors and Laser Tweezers Microscope Systems By Linda Z. Shi, Michael W. Berns and Elliot Botvinick		2543
Open access peer-reviewed 30. Robot Attack on Vascular Surgery By Petr Stadler		3312
Open access peer-reviewed 31. Mechanical Error Analysis of Compact Forceps Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgery By Takashi Suzuki, Yoichi Katayama, Etsuko Kobayashi and Ichiro Sakuma		2589
Open access peer-reviewed 32. Dental Patient Robot By Hideaki Takanobu		2324
Open access peer-reviewed 33. Neuro- and Fascial Anatomy in the Male Pelvis for Robotic Radical Prostatectomy By Atsushi Takenaka, Ashutosh K. Tewari and Masato Fujisawa		4247
Open access peer-reviewed 34. Robotic Assistance in Microvascular Surgery By M.G.W. van den Heuvel and R.R.W.J. van der Hulst		2344
Open access peer-reviewed 35. Cooperative Robotic System to Support Surgical Interventions By Raul A. Castillo Cruces, H. Christian Schneider and Juergen Wahrburg		2542
Open access peer-reviewed 36. Robotics in General Surgery By James Wall, Venita Chandra and Thomas Krummel		8854
Open access peer-reviewed 37. Telemanipulated Long Bone Fracture Reduction By Ralf Westphal, Simon Winkelbach, Thomas Goesling, Markus Oszwald, Tobias Huefner, Christian Krettek and Friedrich Wahl		2367

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