Using robotics to move a neurosurgeon's hands to the tip of their endoscope.

ABSTRACT: A major advantage of surgical robots is that they can reduce the invasiveness of a procedure by enabling the clinician to manipulate tools as they would in open surgery but through small incisions in the body. Neurosurgery has yet to benefit from this advantage. Although clinical robots are available for the least invasive neurosurgical procedures, such as guiding electrode insertion, the most invasive brain surgeries, such as tumor resection, are still performed as open manual procedures. To investigate whether robotics could reduce the invasiveness of major brain surgeries while still providing the manipulation capabilities of open surgery, we created a two-armed joystick-controlled endoscopic robot. To evaluate the efficacy of this robot, we developed a set of neurosurgical skill tasks

SUBMITTER: Price K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10801784 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature