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A Teleoperated Surgical Robot System

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Neurosurgical Robotics

Part of the book series: Neuromethods ((NM,volume 162))

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This chapter reviews a teleoperated surgical robotic system that we have developed over the past several years at Vanderbilt University. It delivers needle-sized instruments into the human body that are able to move in a tentacle-like manner in the sense that they can controllably bend and elongate. Preclinical studies on this class of robots (by both our group and others) have investigated the feasibility of using them for intracerebral hemorrhage aspiration, thermal ablation to treat epilepsy, endoscopic third ventriculostomy, endoscopic colloid cyst removal, and endonasal pituitary surgery. This chapter initially describes the system from the perspective of endonasal pituitary surgery, but also includes a section at the end summarizing how the same basic robot concept can be applied in the other neurosurgical contexts mentioned above. We believe that one day, a system of the type described in this chapter will provide a “da Vinci-like” platform where the surgeon teleoperates the robot from a control console, and the robot makes minimally invasive procedures much easier for the surgeon.

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    Andria A. Remirez, Margaret F. Rox, Trevor L. Bruns, Paul T. Russell & Robert J. Webster III

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Remirez, A.A., Rox, M.F., Bruns, T.L., Russell, P.T., Webster III, R.J. (2021). A Teleoperated Surgical Robot System. In: Marcus, H.J., Payne, C.J. (eds) Neurosurgical Robotics. Neuromethods, vol 162. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0993-4_3

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