title: Development of a new microsurgical robot for stereotactic neurosurgery.
abstract: The robot technology was introduced into a new stereotactic neurosurgery system for applications to biopsy, blind surgery, and functional neurosurgery. The authors have developed a newly designed prototype microsurgical robot, designed to allow a biopsy needle to reach the target such as a cerebral tumor within a brain automatically on the basis of the X, Y, and Z coordinates obtained by CT scanner. This robot is so small that it can be driven in a CT scanner gantry. It consists mainly of the link mechanism and the insertion mechanism. We constructed the link mechanism and investigated its working space.
authors.affiliation: Center of Education and Research, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Funakubo
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takakura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fankhauser
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000295:instrumentation; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*