Title
CT-directed robotic biopsy testbed: user interface and coordinate transformations
Abstract
CT-guided percutaneous biopsy is a widely accepted practice in the medical field. Because efficient and safe CT-guided percutaneous interventions require accurate needle placement, there are limitations to the accuracy obtainable using free-hand techniques, particularly for small or deeply situated target areas. In addition, CT-directed percutaneous biopsy can be tedious and time consuming, since frequent re-imaging may be required. As a demonstration platform, we are developing a robotic biopsy testbed incorporating a mobile CT scanner, a small “needle driver” robot, and a localizer. This testbed will be used to compare robotically assisted biopsy to the current manual technique. The testbed will also allow us to investigate software architectures for integrating various hardware and software components. This testbed is the first step in developing the robotically assisted biopsy system of the future. In this paper, we present the overall concept and then provide details about the user interface and coordinate transformations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00043-7
International Congress Series
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medical robotics,Biopsy,Computed tomography,Image guidance,Localizer,User interface
Testbed,Biopsy,Software,Scanner,Computed tomography,Component-based software engineering,Robot,User interface,Medicine,Embedded system
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
1230
0531-5131
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.78
5
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Cleary134356.78
Sumiyo Onda230.78
Filip Banovac36315.29
David Lindisch44310.97
Neil Glossop57213.97
Lei Jiang630.78
Sheng Xu750771.47
Alexandru Patriciu810212.99
Dan Stoianovici933159.34