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3-D Path-Following Control for Steerable Needles with Fiber Bragg Gratings in Multi-Core Fibers

3-D Path-Following Control for Steerable Needles with Fiber Bragg Gratings in Multi-Core Fibers

3-D Path-Following Control for Steerable Needles with Fiber Bragg Gratings in Multi-Core Fibers 789 444 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
This is the first study to demonstrate the safety and performance benefits of fiber Bragg gratings in multi-core fibers for autonomous steerable needle navigation, implemented here within a biologically inspired neurosurgical system. read more
Shape Sensing Techniques for Continuum Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Survey

Shape Sensing Techniques for Continuum Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Survey

Author(s)3: Chaoyang Shi, Xiongbiao Luo, Peng Qi, Tianliang Li, Shuang Song, Zoran Najdovski, Toshio Fukuda, Hongliang Ren
Shape Sensing Techniques for Continuum Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Survey 170 177 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)

Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments, and enable to perform complex and delicate operations…

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