State of the art and future opportunities in MRI-guided robot-assisted surgery and interventions

H Su, KW Kwok, K Cleary, I Iordachita… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-quality 3-D visualization of target
anatomy, surrounding tissue, and instrumentation, but there are significant challenges in …

MRI robots for needle-based interventions: systems and technology

R Monfaredi, K Cleary, K Sharma - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2018 - Springer
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides high-quality soft-tissue images of anatomical
structures and radiation free imaging. The research community has focused on establishing …

Modeling and control of an MR-safe pneumatic radial inflow motor and encoder (PRIME)

AL Gunderman, M Azizkhani… - IEEE/ASME …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance (MR) conditional actuators and encoders are the key components for
MR-guided robotic systems. In this article, we present the modeling and control of our MR …

Review of robotic needle guide systems for percutaneous intervention

P Kulkarni, S Sikander, P Biswas, S Frawley… - Annals of biomedical …, 2019 - Springer
Numerous research groups in the past have designed and developed robotic needle guide
systems that improve the targeting accuracy and precision by either providing a physical …

Respiratory compensated robot for liver cancer treatment: Design, fabrication, and benchtop characterization

MJ Musa, K Sharma, K Cleary… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hepatocellularcarcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the
world. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is an effective method for treating tumors less than 5 …

Magnetic resonance imaging-guided needle insertion robots: A review of systems for liver and kidney interventions

Z Liang, L Lindenroth, R Hashem… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided intervention for the liver and kidney has
achieved considerable progress in tumor diagnosis and treatment over the past two …

MR-conditional actuations: A review

Q **ao, R Monfaredi, M Musa, K Cleary… - Annals of biomedical …, 2020 - Springer
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most prevailing technologies to enable
noninvasive and radiation-free soft tissue imaging. Operating a robotic device under MRI …

Design of a 6-DoF parallel robotic platform for MRI applications

M Musa, S Sengupta, Y Chen - Journal of Medical Robotics …, 2022 - World Scientific
In this work, the design, analysis, and characterization of a parallel robotic motion
generation platform with 6-degrees of freedom (DoF) for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Parameter tuning of auto disturbance rejection controller based on improved glowworm swarm optimization algorithm

B Gao, W Shen, Y Dai, YT Ye - Assembly Automation, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to study a parameter tuning method for the active disturbance
rejection control (ADRC) to improve the anti-interference ability and position tracking of the …

An integrated robotic system for MRI-guided neuroablation: Preclinical evaluation

NA Patel, CJ Nycz, PA Carvalho… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Treatment of brain tumors requires high precision in order to ensure sufficient
treatment while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Ablation of such tumors …