2017 Design of Medical Devices Conference 2017
DOI: 10.1115/dmd2017-3408
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Treating Epilepsy via Thermal Ablation: Initial Experiments With an MRI-Guided Concentric Tube Robot

Abstract: Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological disorder affecting 65 million people globally [1]. Anti-epileptic medications fail to provide effective seizure control for 30% of patients, placing them at a 7–17% risk of Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy and recurrent seizures. Surgical resection of the seizure focus is a potentially curative treatment for patients with seizures that electrophysiologically correlate to a focal lesion. For these patients, focal surgical resection can result in 60–70% seizure-freedom ra… Show more

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“…A curved trajectory through a steerable needle could provide a better trade-off between coverage of the target area and damage reduction to collateral structures, while facilitating the inclusion of EnCx and PiCx, as recently reported in terms of Engel I outcomes for correlated structures [16], [23]. D.Comber et al [24] proposed a patient-specific design of concentric tube needles for a transforamenal approach to access the hippocampus. In this study, for each of the 20 selected hippocampi, a concentric tube robot was designed and optimized to traverse a trajectory from the foramen ovale to and through the hippocampus, from head to tail.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…A curved trajectory through a steerable needle could provide a better trade-off between coverage of the target area and damage reduction to collateral structures, while facilitating the inclusion of EnCx and PiCx, as recently reported in terms of Engel I outcomes for correlated structures [16], [23]. D.Comber et al [24] proposed a patient-specific design of concentric tube needles for a transforamenal approach to access the hippocampus. In this study, for each of the 20 selected hippocampi, a concentric tube robot was designed and optimized to traverse a trajectory from the foramen ovale to and through the hippocampus, from head to tail.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…For example, Bajo et al [8,9] proposed a method for tendon-driven continuum robot contact force sensing, but this requires a dedicated force cell at the actuation unit. The joint-space force cells may not be available for some continuum devices such as concentric tubes [10], steerable needles [11], or in MR-guided interventions [12][13][14][15] where the MRI-conditional force sensor is not readily available. 1 Alternatively, force can be estimated implicitly based on the measurements of continuum robot configuration change.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%