Haptic Intracorporeal Palpation Using a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot: A User Study.

Journal: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative palpation is a surgical gesture jeopardized by the lack of haptic feedback which affects robotic minimally invasive surgery. Restoring the force reflection in teleoperated systems may improve both surgeons' performance and procedures' outcome.

Authors

  • Arianna Saracino
  • Timo J C Oude-Vrielink
  • Arianna Menciassi
  • Edoardo Sinibaldi
  • George P Mylonas
    HARMS Lab, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, St Mary's Hospital, 20 South Wharf Road, 3rd Floor Paterson Centre, London, W21PF, UK.