Integrating optical fiber force sensors into microforceps for ORL microsurgery

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1848-1851

  Bell, Brett ^a   Stankowski, Stefan ^b   Moser, Benjamin ^b   Oliva, Vidina ^a   Stieger, Christof ^a   Nolte, Lutz Peter ^a   Caversaccio, Marco ^a   Weber, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATING (FBG); FORCE SENSOR; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MICROFORCEPS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

SURGERY;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INCUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; NECROSIS; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; STAPES SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INCUS; MICROSURGERY; NECROSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; STAPES SURGERY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650837435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5625967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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