A Robotic System for Overlapping Radiofrequency Ablation in Large Tumor Treatment

Cognitive Engine for Robot-assisted Radio-Frequency Ablation System

“…For performing large and multiple liver tumors ablation with high accuracy, consistency and efficiency, the Image-guide Radio-frequency Ablation (RFA) Surgical Robotic System [5] [6] was developed to implement minimally invasive ablation surgery based on commonly used clinical RF needles. This surgical robotic system incorporates several components including medical image processing, surgery pre-planning, KINECT-based vision registration and a needle insertion robot with a remote-center mechanism (RCM).…”

“…During the surgical operation, the surgical robot with spherical mechanism executes these trajectories through SIP to reach multi-targets to achieve the required surgical outcomes. This surgical procedure could dramatically reduce the patient's blood loss and improve postsurgical recovery [5] [6]. However, this system requires substantial preparation time, during pre-operative planning.…”

“…In this paper, a framework for a cognitive engine is proposed, to supervise an image-guide, robot-assisted, radio-frequency ablation surgical system as reported in [5] [6]. The cognitive engine can supervise and generate complete and unique surgical procedures from a knowledge database depending on the patient specific requirements and available surgical instruments.…”

Intraoperative Visual Guidance and Control Interface for Augmented Reality Robotic Surgery

“…Robotic assistance www.intechopen.com provides the necessary augmentation in dexterity to provide precision and accuracy even in space constraint situation (Hyosig & Wen, 2001;Kuo & Dai, 2009;Stoianovici et al, 1998;Taylor & Stoianovici, 2003;Taylor, 2008). The Transcutaneous Robot-assisted Ablationdevice Insertion Navigation System (TRAINS) is developed for ablation treatment in liver tumor (Chang et al, 2011;Yang et al, 2010). Technical details and demonstrate the implementation of robotic modules for AR robotic system are presented as follows.…”

Numerical Study on the Effect of Liquid Injection in Hepatic Microwave Ablation

“…There are still many defects in the treatment of large hepatocellular carcinoma. It's difficult for MWA to kill the entire tumor disposable, but multiple overlapping ablation will lead to incomplete coverage [4][5][6]. Therefore, expanding the lesion size is the key to improve the curative effect of microwave treatment of large hepatic tumors.…”