Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a successful and highly effective procedure in most patients
with tricompartmental knee arthritis. Despite the innovations in surgical techniques due to …

Abstract Background and Objective Lasers are widely employed in clinical applications. In
vivo monitoring of real‐time information about different‐wavelength laser surgeries would …

For the past three decades, laser use has been investigated, mainly on implant applications,
as well as hard and soft tissue processing on orthopedics. However, despite significant …

Background/Objective: With the rapid advancement in surgical technologies, new workflows
for mandibular reconstruction are constantly being evaluated. Cutting guides are extensively …

A markerless system for the registration of a bone's pose is presented which reduces the
setup time and the damage to the bone to a minimum. For the registration, a particle filter is …

This paper focuses on a research problem of robotic controlled laser orientation to minimize
errant overcutting of healthy tissue during the course of pathological tissue resection. Laser …

Nowadays the use of lasers in medicine is becoming more and more popular. To improve
the quality of operations, attempts by various researchers are being made to use lasers in …

Laser ablation of bone for the purposes of osteotomy is not as well understood as ablation of
homogeneous, non-biological materials such as metals and plastics. Ignition times and etch …

Abstract Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products are
provided for automated planning of a cutting boundary for removal of a diseased region of …

In order to improve the performance of robotic laser medical operations, various methods
are used to control the distance from the laser head or objective optics to the surface to be …