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International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality (MIAR '01)
Image-Guided Manipulator Compliant Surgical Planning Methodology for Robotic Skull-Base Surgery
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
June 10-June 12
ISBN: 0-7695-1113-9
Charles Sim, Nanyang Technological University
Wan Sing Ng, Nanyang Technological University
Ming Yeong Teo, Nanyang Technological University
Yong-Chong Loh, Nanyang Technological University
Tseng-Tsai Yeo, National Neuroscience Institute
Abstract: In Robotic Skull-Base Surgery, a surgical navigation and planning station is used to plan the path to be taken by the bone removal tool which is carried by a robotic manipulator. In planning for such a path, considerations have to be taken in terms of the manipulator characteristics and the geometric properties of the bone removal tool used. Presented in this paper is a methodology which takes into account the required efficacy of surgical planning. Differing from other surgical planning methodology, the final output of the planned surgery can be directly executed by a surgical robot (NeuRobot). In doing so, the surgeon has only to specify the region or features within the skull-base which are to be avoided and the general direction of action which specifies the eventual path that the surgery is to be carried out. A novel approach is taken by the use of Voronoi maps to identify "safe" cavities on each image slice.
Index Terms:
Skull-Base Drilling, Robotics, Image Guided, Voronoi Map, Surgical Navigation
Citation:
Charles Sim, Wan Sing Ng, Ming Yeong Teo, Yong-Chong Loh, Tseng-Tsai Yeo, "Image-Guided Manipulator Compliant Surgical Planning Methodology for Robotic Skull-Base Surgery," miar, pp.0026, International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality (MIAR '01), 2001
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