Title :
Medical application of robotics and mechatronics
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Precision Machinery Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Surgery robots are needed to assist surgeons to overcome more difficult procedures and thus to help incurable patients as much as possible. A simple application of industrial robots may need more cumbersome and complicated changes although it seems like a much easier way to achieve this goal. The author proposes development of a new design concept based upon clinical demand such as a suitable integration of medical images and laser technology
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; laser applications in medicine; mechatronics; robots; surgery; corneal surgery; manipulator excimer laser surgery; mechatronics; medical applications; microsurgery; robotics; stereotaxic surgery; surgery robots; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical imaging; Content addressable storage; Laser surgery; Mechatronics; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical robotics; Medical services; Microsurgery; Robot kinematics;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering Days, 1992., Proceedings of the 1992 International
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0743-7
DOI :
10.1109/IBED.1992.247086
