A magnetic resonance conditional robot for lumbar spinal injection: Development and preliminary validation.

Journal: The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
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Abstract

PURPOSE: This work presents the design and preliminary validation of a Magnetic Resonance (MR) conditional robot for lumbar injection for the treatment of lower back pain.

Authors

  • Depeng Liu
    School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
  • Gang Li
    The Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust, Deakin University, Australia.
  • Shuyuan Wang
    Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Zixuan Liu
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
  • Yanzhou Wang
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China.
  • Laura Connolly
    School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
  • David E Usevitch
    Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Guofeng Shen
    School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
  • Kevin Cleary
  • Iulian Iordachita
    Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.