Design of an advanced tool guiding system for robotic surgery

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2651-2656

  Peirs, Jan ^a   Reynaerts, Dominiek ^a   Van Brussel, Hendrik ^a   De Gersem, Gudrun ^a   Tang, Hsiao Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Flexible instrument; Robot surgery

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; ENDOSCOPY; ERGONOMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MANIPULATORS; NICKEL ALLOYS; SURGERY;

ROBOT ASSISTED SURGERY; ROBOTIC TOOL GUIDING SYSTEM; ZEUS ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0345308332     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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