Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery · 1990 · 23 citations · 0 references
MedicineNeurosurgerySurgeryFunctional NeurosurgeryMedical RoboticsMicrosurgeryMicrosurgical InstrumentationMicrosurgical InstrumentsRobot-assisted SurgeryStereotactic NeurosurgeryStereotactic SurgerySurgical RoboticsBiopsy Needle PlacementBiopsy NeedlesRobotic NeurosurgeryStereotactic Brain BiopsyStereotactic Needle BiopsyStereotactic TargetingStereotactic Tumor BiopsySurgical Targeting
The robot technology was introduced into a new stereotactic neurosurgery system for applications to biopsy, blind surgery, and functional neurosurgery. The authors have developed a newly designed prototype microsurgical robot, designed to allow a biopsy needle to reach the target such as a cerebral tumor within a brain automatically on the basis of the X, Y, and Z coordinates obtained by CT scanner. This robot is so small that it can be driven in a CT scanner gantry. It consists mainly of the link mechanism and the insertion mechanism. We constructed the link mechanism and investigated its working space.