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Needle Steering for Brain Surgery
Head: Cameron Riviere
Contact: Johnathan A Engh, MD

Mailing address:
MRT Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
(412) 268 6553 (Jim Osborn, Executive Director)
(412) 268 6436 (FAX)

Associated center: MRTC
Associated lab/group: Medical Instrumentation Lab

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Project Description

We have developed a means to accomplish proportional steering control of a flexible needle by controlling the orientation of the needle and spinning it with a variable duty cycle. This approach makes it possible to reach deep lesions with high accuracy using an extremely narrow probe. Both of these characteristics offer important advantages for neurosurgery. To date we have demonstrated the technique in vitro in artificial media (as in the photograph below).

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Publications

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