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First Clinical Experience in Urologic Surgery with a Novel Robotic Lightweight Laparoscope Holder
Jean-Alexandre Long, Jacques Tostain, Cecilia Lanchon +7
Purpose: To report the feasibility and the safety of a surgeon-controlled robotic endoscope holder in laparoscopic surgery. Materials and methods: From March 2010 to September 2010…
Development of a Novel Robot for Transperineal Needle Based Interventions: Focal Therapy, Brachytherapy and Prostate Biopsies
Jean-Alexandre Long, Nikolai Hungr, Michael Baumann +5
Purpose: We report what is to our knowledge the initial experience with a new 3-dimensional ultrasound robotic system for prostate brachytherapy assistance, focal therapy and prost…
Prosper: image and robot-guided prostate brachytherapy
Michael Baumann, Michel Bolla, Vincent Daanen +7
Brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer consists in destroying cancer by introducing iodine radioactive seeds into the gland through hollow needles. The planning of the positio…
Design of an ultrasound-guided robotic brachytherapy needle insertion system
Nikolai Hungr, Jocelyne Troccaz, Nabil Zemiti +1
In this paper we describe a new robotic brachytherapy needle-insertion system that is designed to replace the template used in the manual technique. After a brief review of existin…
Computer- and robot-assisted Medical Intervention
Jocelyne Troccaz
Medical robotics includes assistive devices used by the physician in order to make his/her diagnostic or therapeutic practices easier and more efficient. This chapter focuses on su…
BiopSym: a simulator for enhanced learning of ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy
Stefano Sclaverano, Grégoire Chevreau, Lucile Vadcard +2
This paper describes a simulator of ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies for cancer diagnosis. When performing biopsy series, the clinician has to move the ultrasound probe and to m…