A navigation system for minimally invasive abdominal intervention surgery robot

This paper aims to present a navigation system design for image guided minimal abdominal surgery robot that could compensate for the patient respiratory movement. Currently computer-aided surgery navigation technology has been broadly applied to such fields as orthopedics and neurosurgery, but in the field of interventional surgery, it is still rarely reported. As described in this paper, we introduced a surgery navigation system which can be applied to the interstitial treatment. Multiply technique are used to immobilizing the patient body, making the route plan and tracking the surgery instrument, real-time ultrasound feedback and image registration is also used to enhance the precision of instrument positioning. The goal of this research is to develop a computer-aided surgery navigation system in minimally invasive surgery, and provides solutions to urgent requirements in optical precision positioning, planning and navigation in abdominal surgeries. So that it can fine supporting completion of the surgery operation, improve accuracy and efficiency of the traditional surgical methods, and reduce the suffering of patients from pain.