Air-cushion force sensitive probe for soft tissue investigation during minimally invasive surgery

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 827-830

  Althoefer, Kaspar ^a   Zbyszewski, Dinusha ^a   Liu, Hongbin ^a   Puangmali, Pinyo ^a   Seneviratne, Lakmal ^a   Challacombe, Benjamin ^b   Dasgupt, Prokar ^b   Murphy, Declan ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SOFT TISSUE; CONTINUOUS ROLLING; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; FORCE SENSING DEVICES; INTERACTION FORCES; INTERNAL ORGANS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NOVEL CONCEPT; RAPID ACQUISITION; RESISTANT FORCE; SENSITIVE PROBE; SOFT TISSUE; STIFFNESS VARIATIONS; TISSUE DIAGNOSIS; TISSUE SURFACE; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL;

PROBES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SILICONES; STIFFNESS; SURFACES; SURGERY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

TISSUE;

EID: 67649934391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2008.4716568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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