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Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics
In recent years, soft robotics has surged in applications like wearables, drones, smart fabrics, and medical instruments. Due to their compliance, these devices excel in tasks demanding dexterity and adaptability, such as manipulation, locomotion, crash re ...
EPFL2024Subsurface fluorescence time-of-flight imaging using a large-format single-photon avalanche diode sensor for tumor depth assessment
Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü, Yichen Feng
Significance: Fluorescence guidance is used clinically by surgeons to visualize anatomical and/or physiological phenomena in the surgical field that are difficult or impossible to detect by the naked eye. Such phenomena include tissue perfusion or molecula ...
Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2024Comparison of Responses to DCN vs. VCN Stimulation in a Mouse Model of the Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI)
Stéphanie Lacour, Florent-Valéry Coen, Nicolas Vachicouras
The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is an auditory neuroprosthesis that provides hearing to deaf patients by electrically stimulating the cochlear nucleus (CN) of the brainstem. Whether such stimulation activates one or the other of the CN's two major sub ...
SPRINGER2022Foot Control of a Surgical Laparoscopic Gripper via 5DoF Haptic Robotic Platform: Design, Dynamics and Haptic Shared Control
Aude Billard, Mohamed Bouri, Walid Amanhoud, Jacob Hernandez Sanchez
Foot devices have been ubiquitously used in surgery to control surgical equipment. Most common applications are foot switches for electro-surgery, endoscope positioning and tele-robotic consoles. Switches fall short of providing continuous control as requi ...
2021Surgical management of anterior clinoidal meningiomas: consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section
Background The optimal management of clinoidal meningiomas (CMs) continues to be debated. Methods We constituted a task force comprising the members of the EANS skull base committee along with international experts to derive recommendations for the managem ...
2021Decoding of grasping tasks from intraneural recordings in trans-radial amputee
Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle
Objective. A major challenge in neuroprosthetics is the restoration of sensory-motor hand functions in upper-limb amputees. Neuroprostheses based on the direct re-connection of the peripheral nerves may be an interesting approach for re-establishing the na ...
2020Paragangliomas of the spine: a retrospective case series in a national reference French center
Introduction Primary paragangliomas (PG) of the spine are extremely rare entities. The present study reviews our experience over a period of 30 years. Methods This is a retrospective, single center, observational study. Patients surgically treated for a sp ...
2019Simultaneous Recognition and Pose Estimation of Instruments in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Pascal Fua, Raphael Sznitman, Pablo Marquez Neila
Detection of surgical instruments plays a key role in ensuring patient safety in minimally invasive surgery. In this paper, we present a novel method for 2D vision-based recognition and pose estimation of surgical instruments that generalizes to different ...
2017The Art of Flexure Mechanism Design
Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Lennart Rubbert, Murielle Richard
Flexure mechanism design is an art, and this book provides the theoretical and practical foundation for scientists and engineers to express their creativity in this field. Flexure mechanisms, also known as compliant mechanisms, rely on the elasticity of ma ...
EPFL Press2017Adhesion of surgical sealants used in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery
Yves Leterrier, Yann Barrandon
Surgical sealants are widely used in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery essentially for hemostasis and sealing. Their adhesive properties have mainly been studied by clinical experiments. The objective of this study is to measure adhesion of the three mai ...
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