The kinematic architecture of the Active Headframe: A new head support for awake brain surgery.
This paper presents the novel hybrid kinematic structure of the Active Headframe, a robotic head support to be employed in brain surgery operations for an active and dynamic control of the patient's head position and orientation, particularly addressing awake surgery requirements. The topology has been conceived in order to satisfy all the installation, functional and dynamic requirements. A kinetostatic optimization has been performed to obtain the actual geometric dimensions of the prototype currently being developed.
Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation of the Italian National Research Council, via Bassini 15, 20133 Milan, Italy. matteo.malosio at itia.cnr.it
Matteo
M
Malosio
Simone Pio
SP
Negri
Nicola
N
Pedrocchi
Federico
F
Vicentini
Francesco
F
Cardinale
Lorenzo Molinari
LM
Tosatti
D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001921:Brain / Q000601:surgery; D004867:Equipment Design; D006257:Head / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014851:Wakefulness