Magnetically actuated continuum medical robots: A review

Z Yang, H Yang, Y Cao, Y Cui… - Advanced intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetic field has unique advantages in manipulating miniature robots working inside
the human body, such as high transparency to biological tissue and good controllability for …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetosurgery: Principles, design, and applications

DV Kladko, VV Vinogradov - Smart Materials in Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Magnetosurgery, the guidance or actuation of surgical instruments during operations using
magnetic forces, has become a global trend in minimally invasive surgeries performed …

Multi-Section Magnetic Soft Robot with Multirobot Navigation System for Vasculature Intervention

Z Li, Q Xu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2024 - spj.science.org
Magnetic soft robots have recently become a promising technology that has been applied to
minimally invasive cardiovascular surgery. This paper presents the analytical modeling of a …

Hysense: A hyper-sensitive and high-fidelity vision-based tactile sensor

OC Kara, N Ikoma, F Alambeigi - 2022 IEEE Sensors, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, to address the sensitivity and dura-bility trade-off of Vision based Tactile
Sensor (VTSs), we in-troduce a hyper-sensitive and high-fidelity VTS called HySenSe. We …

Integrated magnetic location sensing and actuation of steerable robotic catheters for peripheral arterial disease treatment

J Wu, K Yu, I Lopez, AA Izquierdo… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetically steerable robotic catheters (MSRC) are a promising technology for
percutaneous endovascular intervention (PEI) procedures to treat peripheral arterial …

Anatomy-Specific Optimization of a Multi-Contact-Aided Continuum Manipulator

X Ai, A Gao, W Chen - IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical endoscopes deployable through natural orifices are necessary to facilitate further
reduction in invasiveness. However, the constant curvature deflection shapes of …

An image information-based objective assessment method of technical manipulation skills for intravascular interventions

J Guo, M Li, Y Wang, S Guo - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The clinical success of vascular interventional surgery relies heavily on a surgeon's
catheter/guidewire manipulation skills and strategies. An objective and accurate assessment …

A ferromagnetic notched soft guidewire for enhanced flexibility

Y Shen, C Cui, S Liang, H Zhang… - Smart Materials and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferromagnetic soft guidewires (FSGs) capable of remote active steering and navigation offer
substantial potential for biomedical applications. However, in practical applications, such as …

Continuum Robots and Magnetic Soft Robots: From Models to Interdisciplinary Challenges for Medical Applications

H Wang, Y Mao, J Du - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
This article explores the challenges of continuum and magnetic soft robotics for medical
applications, extending from model development to an interdisciplinary perspective. First, we …

Toward distributed fiber optic shape sensing of continuum manipulators: A cost-effective and simple manufacturing of sensor assembly

N Nguyen, M Parker, OC Kara… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fibers have gained popularity to be used
for shape sensing (SS) of continuum manipulators (CMs) developed for various minimally …