Title
Evaluation of nonholonomic needle steering using a robotic needle driver
Abstract
Accurate needle placement is a common need in the medical environment. While the use of small diameter needles for clinical applications such as biopsy, anesthesia and cholangiography is preferred over the use of larger diameter needles, precision placement can often be challenging, particularly for needles with a bevel tip. This is due to deflection of the needle shaft caused by asymmetry of the needle tip. Factors such as the needle shaft material, bevel design, and properties of the tissue penetrated determine the nature and extent to which a needle bends. In recent years, several models have been developed to characterize the bending of the needle, which provides a method of determining the trajectory of the needle through tissue. This paper explores the use of a nonholonomic model to characterize needle bending while providing added capabilities of path planning, obstacle avoidance, and path correction for lung biopsy procedures. We used a ballistic gel media phantom and a robotic needle placement device to experimentally assess the accuracy of simulated needle paths based on the nonholonomic model. Two sets of experiments were conducted, one for a single bend profile of the needle and the second set of tests for double bending of the needle. The tests provided an average error between the simulated path and the actual path of 0.8 mm for the single bend profile and 0.9 mm for the double bend profile tests over a 110 mm long insertion distance. The maximum error was 7.4 mm and 6.9 mm for the single and double bend profile tests respectively. The nonholonomic model is therefore shown to provide a reasonable prediction of needle bending.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1117/12.844479
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
path planning,obstacle avoidance
Obstacle avoidance,Motion planning,Bevel,Deflection (engineering),Imaging phantom,Ballistic gelatin,Optics,Bending,Acoustics,Nonholonomic system,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7625
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emmanuel Wilson1406.64
jeinan ding200.34
Craig R. Carignan38312.38
karthik krishnan421.13
Rick Avila5121.64
Wes Turner691.47
Dan Stoianovici733159.34
David F. Yankelevitz826129.95
Filip Banovac96315.29
Kevin Cleary1034356.78