CRANE: A Redundant, Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Computed Tomography Robot for Heightened Needle Dexterity within a Medical Imaging Bore

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schreiber, Dimitrious, Yu, Zhaowei, Henderson, Taylor, Chen, Derek, Norbasha, Alexander, Yip, Michael C.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914666579492864
author Schreiber, Dimitrious
Yu, Zhaowei
Henderson, Taylor
Chen, Derek
Norbasha, Alexander
Yip, Michael C.
author_facet Schreiber, Dimitrious
Yu, Zhaowei
Henderson, Taylor
Chen, Derek
Norbasha, Alexander
Yip, Michael C.
contents Computed Tomography (CT) image guidance enables accurate and safe minimally invasive treatment of diseases, including cancer and chronic pain, with needle-like tools via a percutaneous approach. The physician incrementally inserts and adjusts the needle with intermediate images due to the accuracy limitation of free-hand adjustment and patient physiological motion. Scanning frequency is limited to minimize ionizing radiation exposure for the patient and physician. Robots can provide high positional accuracy and compensate for physiological motion with fewer scans. To accomplish this, the robots must operate within the confined imaging bore while retaining sufficient dexterity to insert and manipulate the needle. This paper presents CRANE: CT Robotic Arm and Needle Emplacer, a CT-compatible robot with a design focused on system dexterity that enables physicians to manipulate and insert needles within the scanner bore as naturally as they would be able to by hand. We define abstract and measurable clinically motivated metrics for in-bore dexterity applicable to general-purpose intra-bore image-guided needle placement robots, develop an automatic robot planning and control method for intra-bore needle manipulation and device setup, and demonstrate the redundant linkage design provides dexterity across various human morphology and meets the clinical requirements for target accuracy during an in-situ evaluation.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2402_02708
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle CRANE: A Redundant, Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Computed Tomography Robot for Heightened Needle Dexterity within a Medical Imaging Bore
Schreiber, Dimitrious
Yu, Zhaowei
Henderson, Taylor
Chen, Derek
Norbasha, Alexander
Yip, Michael C.
Robotics
Computed Tomography (CT) image guidance enables accurate and safe minimally invasive treatment of diseases, including cancer and chronic pain, with needle-like tools via a percutaneous approach. The physician incrementally inserts and adjusts the needle with intermediate images due to the accuracy limitation of free-hand adjustment and patient physiological motion. Scanning frequency is limited to minimize ionizing radiation exposure for the patient and physician. Robots can provide high positional accuracy and compensate for physiological motion with fewer scans. To accomplish this, the robots must operate within the confined imaging bore while retaining sufficient dexterity to insert and manipulate the needle. This paper presents CRANE: CT Robotic Arm and Needle Emplacer, a CT-compatible robot with a design focused on system dexterity that enables physicians to manipulate and insert needles within the scanner bore as naturally as they would be able to by hand. We define abstract and measurable clinically motivated metrics for in-bore dexterity applicable to general-purpose intra-bore image-guided needle placement robots, develop an automatic robot planning and control method for intra-bore needle manipulation and device setup, and demonstrate the redundant linkage design provides dexterity across various human morphology and meets the clinical requirements for target accuracy during an in-situ evaluation.
title CRANE: A Redundant, Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Computed Tomography Robot for Heightened Needle Dexterity within a Medical Imaging Bore
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02708