Title
Metal MEMS tools for beating-heart tissue removal.
Abstract
A novel robotic tool is proposed to enable the surgical removal of tissue from inside the beating heart. The tool is manufactured using a unique metal MEMS process that provides the means to fabricate fully assembled devices that incorporate micron-scale features in a millimeter scale tool. The tool is integrated with a steerable curved concentric tube robot that can enter the heart through the vasculature. Incorporating both irrigation and aspiration, the tissue removal system is capable of extracting substantial amounts of tissue under teleoperated control by first morselizing it and then transporting the debris out of the heart through the lumen of the robot. Tool design and robotic integration are described and ex vivo experimental results are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225210
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
aspiration,robots,irrigation,surgery,metals,biomedical research,valves,heart,bioinformatics
Biomedical engineering,Teleoperation,Microelectromechanical systems,Medical robotics,Mechanical engineering,Tool design,Engineering,Robot
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2012
1
1050-4729 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1404-6
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1404-6
9
0.72
References 
Authors
12
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew H. C. Gosline1735.99
Nikolay V. Vasilyev226423.76
Arun Veeramani3181.29
Ming-Ting Wu4384.77
Greg Schmitz590.72
Richard T. Chen6513.36
Veaceslav Arabagi7434.93
Pedro J. del Nido830229.74
Pierre E Dupont91399187.89