Title :
"RoboLase": A robotic laser scissors and laser tweezers microscope
Author :
Shi, Linda Z. ; Nascimento, Jaclyn M. ; Wakida, Nicole ; Dvornikov, Alexander ; Baker, Norman ; Botvinick, Elliot L. ; Berns, Michael W.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA
fDate :
Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006
Abstract :
We have built a robotic laser scissors and laser tweezers microscope ("RoboLase") that can be operated via the Internet. The system can be used to image, ablate, and/or trap cells and their organelles by remote-control. In the ablation mode, RoboLase is being used to perform delicate microsurgery on mitotic organelles (individual microtubules, spindle fibers, and centrioles). In the trapping mode, the system is being used as a real-time automatic tracking and trapping system (RATTS) of fast moving cells. RATTS performs all tracking and trapping functions without human intervention and has been used remotely between Australia and the US.
Keywords :
medical robotics; Internet; RoboLase; laser tweezers microscope; robotic laser scissors; Cells (biology); Fiber lasers; Internet; Laser ablation; Laser modes; Microscopy; Microsurgery; Robots; Surgery; Teleprinting; laser scissors; laser tweezers; robotic microscope;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006. ACSSC '06. Fortieth Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0784-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1058-6393
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.2006.356609