Endovascular techniques have been embraced as a minimally-invasive treatment approach
within different disciplines of interventional radiology and cardiology. The current practice of …

Endovascular technologies are rapidly evolving, often requiring coordination and
cooperation between clinicians and technicians from diverse specialties. These …

Remote-controlled vascular interventional robots have great potential for use in minimally
invasive vascular surgeries in recent years due to their ability to reduce the occupational risk …

Despite the increasing popularity of endovascular intervention in clinical practice, there
remains a lack of objective and quantitative metrics for skill evaluation of endovascular …

This article reports a miniature, high-resolution fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based triaxial force
sensor to detect the catheter tip-tissue interaction forces. This sensor counts on a delicate …

The complex, deformable, and dynamic cardiovascular system makes precise control of
flexible medical instruments a challenging task. An innovative robot-assisted catheterization …

Robot-assisted endovascular catheterization is generally performed remotely;
interventionists perceive the operation status and control surgical instruments through haptic …

The adoption of non-surgical procedures for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases has
yielded several benefits such as lesser perioperative pain, shorter hospital stay, and faster …

Despite rapid growth of robot assisted catheterization in recent years, most current platforms
are based on master-slave designs with limited operator-robot collaborative control and …

Objective: Technical skill assessment plays an important role in the professional
development of an interventionalist in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However …