Design of a compliant endoscopic suturing instrument

Journal of Medical Devices, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Cronin VI, James A ^a   Frecker, Mary I ^a   Mathew, Abraham ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanism; NOTES; Surgical instrument design

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANISMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; STRESS RELIEF; SURGERY;

COMPLIANT MECHANISM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY; NOTES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT DESIGN;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING INSTRUMENT; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOMETRY; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PLIABILITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SUTURING METHOD; SWINE;

EID: 50849139594     PISSN: 19326181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2931551     Document Type: Article

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