Design, development and evaluation of an ergonomically designed dual-use mechanism for robot-assisted cardiovascular intervention.
Journal:
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PMID:
36190615
Abstract
PURPOSE: Robot-assisted cardiovascular intervention has been recently developed, which enables interventionists to avoid x-ray radiation and improve their comfort. However, there are still some challenges in the robotic design, such as the inability of the interventionist to freely perform natural clinical techniques and the limited motion travel of the interventional tool. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes an ergonomically designed dual-use mechanism for cardiovascular intervention (DMCI).