Title
Hand-Held Steerable Needle Device
Abstract
This paper presents a novel handheld device for steerable needle insertions for minimally invasive percutaneous procedures. Controlled lateral deflection of over 30mm during a 100mm axial insertion is demonstrated with a 20 gauge needle. A handheld, motorized device has been built to control the direction and rate of steering according to a two-axis miniature joystick input. To facilitate interventions with this steerable needle, two methods of locating the needle and its tip using ultrasound imaging are presented. One uses needle tip vibration for colour/power Doppler-based localization, the other is based on real-time segmentation of B-mode images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-39903-2_28
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
handheld device,real time
Computer vision,Deflection (engineering),Segmentation,Computer science,Ultrasound imaging,Artificial intelligence,Doppler effect,Joystick
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2879
0302-9743
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
3.81
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R. Ebrahimi1163.81
S. Okazawa2163.81
Robert Rohling348869.77
S. E. Salcudean4920123.70