A novel highly articulated robotic surgical system for epicardial ablation

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 250-253

  Ota, Takeyoshi ^a   Degani, Amir ^b   Schwartzman, David ^c   Zubiate, Brett ^c   McGarvey, Jeremy ^a   Choset, Howie ^b   Zenati, Marco A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ROBOTICS; SURGERY;

BEATING HEART; HUMAN CADAVER; LEFT ATRIUMS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; PULMONARY VEINS; ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS;

ROBOTIC SURGERY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PERICARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 61849113699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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