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16th December 2015, 20:57

https://youtu.be/8GXHSXul86s

MITIGATE Automated Needle Placement as presented at RSNA

Published on Dec 16, 2015

The Project group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology (PAMB) and the institute for Medical Image Computing (MEVIS) present a support system for needle-based procedures.

The purpose is to support the precise placement of one or more needles. Whether these are placed to take a biopsy or for treatment is left up to the user. The goal is to improve the overall quality of the procedure by supporting both the planning and the needle placement.
The workflow is as follows:
* Move the registration tool held by the robot in to image frame close to the patient.
* Run a Dyna CT scan
* Register the robot to the image coordinate system by automatic detection of the registration tool in the image
* Select target and entry point on the image
* Send target and entry points to the robot
* Robot moves to insertion ready position and orientation
* Clinician inserts the needle through the needle guide

As the robot is working so close to the patient and requires human machine interaction, great care has been taken to implement safe human machine cooperation concepts in the robot behaviour.

This video shows the demo as it was presented at the technical exhibits of RSNA.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 602306.

For more information regarding robotics, contact PAMB: www.pamb.ipa.fraunhofer.de
For more information regarding image processing software, contact MEVIS: www.mevis.fraunhofer.de