High-field MRI-Compatible needle placement robots for prostate interventions: pneumatic and piezoelectric approaches

H Su, GA Cole, GS Fischer - Advances in robotics and virtual reality, 2012 - Springer
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be a very effective imaging modality for live
guidance during surgical procedures. The rationale of MRI-guided surgery with robot …

Reconfigurable MRI-guided robotic surgical manipulator: prostate brachytherapy and neurosurgery applications

H Su, II Iordachita, X Yan, GA Cole… - … conference of the …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a modular design approach for robotic surgical manipulator under
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance. The proposed manipulator provides 2 degree …

Dynamic simulation of blood flow effects on flexible manipulators during intra-cardiac procedures on the beating heart

A Salimi, J Mohammadpour… - Dynamic …, 2011 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, we develop a numerical mixed flexible-rigid body model to take into account
the effects of the external disturbances acting on a flexible manipulator secondary to the …