From passive tool holders to microsurgeons: Safer, smaller, smarter surgical robots

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1565-1576

  Bergeles, Christos ^a   Yang, Guang Zhong ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microrobots; minimally invasive surgery (MIS); surgical robots

Indexed keywords

NEUROSURGERY; ROBOTICS;

CELLULAR LEVELS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MICRO-IMAGING; MICROROBOTS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; SURGICAL ROBOTICS; SURGICAL ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DEVICE SAFETY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPERATING ROOM; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGEON; TACTILE FEEDBACK; THROAT SURGERY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; DEVICES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE;

HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84899686481     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2293815     Document Type: Article

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