title: A robotic catheter system with real-time force feedback and monitor.
abstract: This paper presents a robotic catheter system with force sensors, monitor and a master-slave remote control system. We developed micro force sensors and applied them in the system to guarantee the operation safety in intravascular neurosurgery applications, and employed a camera to monitor the operation. Two kinds of force information are obtained through force sensors when the catheter contacted the blood vessel. The experiment shows that the proposed force sensors-based catheter system works well through force feedback and remote control. The system can facilitates the operation and avoid potential damages.
authors: Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering Department, Kagawa University, 2217-20, Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa, 761-0396, Japan. xiao@eng.kangawa-u.ac.jp
authors: Nan
authors: N
authors: Xiao
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Guo
authors: Shuxiang
authors: S
authors: Guo
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Tamiya
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D057785:Catheters; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005246:Feedback; D008904:Miniaturization; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers; D014584:User-Computer Interface