A Novel Highly Articulated Robotic Surgical System for Cardiac Ablation
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08), pp. 250 - 253, August, 2008
Abstract
We have developed a novel, highly articulated robotic surgical system to enable minimally invasive intrapericardial interventions through a subxiphoid approach and have performed preliminary tests of epicardial left atrial ablation in porcine (N = 3) and human cadaver (N = 2) preparations. In this study, the novel highly articulated robotic surgical system successfully provided safe epicardial ablations to the left atrium in porcine beating heart models via a subxiphoid approach. We have also performed complex guidance of the robot and subsequent ablation in a cadaveric preparation for successful pulmonary vein isolation.
BibTeX
@conference{Ota-2008-121477,author = {T. Ota and A. Degani and D. Schwartzman and B. Zubiate and J. McGarvey and H. Choset and M. A. Zenati},
title = {A Novel Highly Articulated Robotic Surgical System for Cardiac Ablation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08)},
year = {2008},
month = {August},
pages = {250 - 253},
}
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