| Literature DB >> 21399734 |
Sang-Eun Song1, Nathan B Cho, Gregory Fischer, Nobuhito Hata, Clare Tempany, Gabor Fichtinger, Iulian Iordachita.
Abstract
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) guided prostate biopsy and brachytherapy has been introduced in order to enhance the cancer detection and treatment. For the accurate needle positioning, a number of robotic assistants have been developed. However, problems exist due to the strong magnetic field and limited workspace. Pneumatically actuated robots have shown the minimum distraction in the environment but the confined workspace limits optimal robot design and thus controllability is often poor. To overcome the problem, a simple external damping mechanism using timing belts was sought and a 1-DOF mechanism test result indicated sufficient positioning accuracy. Based on the damping mechanism and modular system design approach, a new workspace-optimized 4-DOF parallel robot was developed for the MRI-guided prostate biopsy and brachytherapy. A preliminary evaluation of the robot was conducted using previously developed pneumatic controller and satisfying results were obtained.Entities:
Year: 2010 PMID: 21399734 PMCID: PMC3051168 DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509710
Source DB: PubMed Journal: IEEE Int Conf Robot Autom ISSN: 2154-8080