Improvement of optical coherence tomography using active handheld micromanipulator in vitreoretinal surgery
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '13), pp. 5674 - 5677, July, 2013
Abstract
An active handheld micromanipulator has been developed to cancel hand tremor during microsurgery. The micromanipulator is also applicable in optical coherence tomography to improve the quality of scanning and minimize surgical risks during the scans. The manipulator can maneuver the tool tip with six degrees of freedom within a cylindrical workspace 4 mm in diameter and 4 mm high. The imaging system is equipped with a 25-gauge Fourier-domain common-path OCT probe. This paper introduces the handheld OCT imaging system and techniques involved and presents stabilized OCT images of A-mode and M-mode scans in air and live rabbit eyes. We show the first demonstration of OCT imaging using the active handheld micromanipulator in vivo.
BibTeX
@conference{Yang-2013-120599,author = {S. Yang and M. Balicki and T. S. Wells and R. A. MacLachlan and X. Liu and J. U. Kang and J. T. Handa and R. H. Taylor and and C. N. Ri},
title = {Improvement of optical coherence tomography using active handheld micromanipulator in vitreoretinal surgery},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '13)},
year = {2013},
month = {July},
pages = {5674 - 5677},
}
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