Background Excessive tool-tissue interaction forces often result in tissue damage and
intraoperative complications, while insufficient forces prevent the completion of the task. This …

With the successful uptake and inclusion of robotic systems in minimally invasive surgery
and with the increasing application of robotic surgery (RS) in numerous surgical specialities …

Microsurgical techniques have been widely utilized in various surgical specialties, such as
ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and otolaryngology, which require intricate and precise …

Intraoperative MRI has been increasingly used to robotically deliver electrodes and
catheters into the human brain using a linear trajectory with great clinical success. Current …

This paper presents a disposable fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based tridirectional force/torque
sensor mountable at the end of the tip of the aspiration instruments for detecting instrument …

The ability to exert an appropriate amount of force on brain tissue during surgery is an
important component of instrument handling. It allows surgeons to achieve the surgical …

Robotics applied to cranial surgery is a fast-moving and fascinating field, which is
transforming the practice of neurosurgery. With exponential increases in computing power …

OBJECTIVE Virtual reality simulators allow development of novel methods to analyze
neurosurgical performance. The concept of a force pyramid is introduced as a Tier 3 metric …

Objective The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy, safety, and duration of Remebot
robot-assisted frameless brain biopsy with those of standard frame-based stereotactic …

A microsurgery-specific haptic interface with articulated structure, possessing 3 active, 4
passive and 3 supplementary degrees of freedom (DOFs), was designed and developed …