Paper Info
Title
Frontiers of Surgical Robotics.
Abstract
Medical Robotics in general, and Surgical Robotics in particular, represent a paradigm of the challenges and accomplishments of Robotics in the last three decades. Considered as little less than science fiction and a field for visionaries in the 80', they have emerged gradually and reached the status of clinical acceptability and of a success story of how research can lead to industrial exploitation. In this lecture, the main achievements and the successful adoption of robotics in different fields of surgery are illustrated. In particular, the challenges, the solutions, the failures and the successes of robots in surgical applications will be presented. Such aspects as the usability of robotics in surgery, the evolution from early solutions using large external robots, to the emerging field of endoluminal surgery, to the frontier of ultra-minimally invasive surgery, will be discussed. Attention will be given to the emerging field of ultra-miniature robots, that anticipate the fusion of robotics surgery with a wide range of imaging technologies and of novel and powerful techniques for localized, high precision intervention based on functionalized nano-carriers, such as nano-particles, nano-tubes, nano-shells and nano-films.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
BIOINFORMATICS 2014: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS MODELS, METHODS AND ALGORITHMS
Surgical robotics,Medical physics,Engineering
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cesare Stefanini118845.66