Needle-tissue interactive mechanism and steering control in image-guided robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery: a review.

Image-guided robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery is an important medicine procedure used for biopsy or local target therapy. In order to reach the target region not accessible using traditional techniques, long and thin flexible needles are inserted into the soft tissue which has large deforma...

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Published in:Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 931 - 950
Main Authors: Li, Pan, Yang, Zhiyong, Jiang, Shan
Format: equations & formulas pictorial review tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2018
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