Abstract
Recently, flexible needles with bevel tips for percutaneous intervention have attracted significant interest. However, there are remaining problems related to controlling by duty-cycle algorithm which prevents widespread adoption of this technology. This motivates development of a new steerable flexible needle model that can change its curvature without axial rotation. In this paper, we propose a new steerable flexible needle design including two parts: cannula and stylet. An inserting system was developed to control the needle. To measure the curvature, a calibrated camera was deployed, and then the obtained images and videos were analyzed using Matlab. Using this setup, we will perform a series of experiment to evaluate the performance of the proposed steerable flexible needle.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ICCAS 2015 - 2015 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, Proceedings |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 1839-1842 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9788993215090 |
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| State | Published - 23 Dec 2015 |
| Event | 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2015 - Busan, Korea, Republic of Duration: 13 Oct 2015 → 16 Oct 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | ICCAS 2015 - 2015 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, Proceedings |
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Conference
| Conference | 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | Korea, Republic of |
| City | Busan |
| Period | 13/10/15 → 16/10/15 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems - ICROS.
Keywords
- Steerable flexible needle
- bevel-tip needle
- percutaneous therapy