Dimitrakakis, E;
Lindenroth, L;
Dwyer, G;
Aylmore, H;
Dorward, NL;
Marcus, HJ;
Stoyanov, D;
(2021)
An intuitive surgical handle design for robotic neurosurgery.
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
10.1007/s11548-021-02402-4.
(In press).
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Abstract
PURPOSE: The expanded endoscopic endonasal approach, a representative example of keyhole brain surgery, allows access to the pituitary gland and surrounding areas through the nasal and sphenoid cavities. Manipulating rigid instruments through these constrained spaces makes this approach technically challenging, and thus, a handheld robotic instrument could expand the surgeon's capabilities. In this study, we present an intuitive handle prototype for such a robotic instrument. METHODS: We have designed and fabricated a surgical instrument handle prototype that maps the surgeon's wrist directly to the robot joints. To alleviate the surgeon's wrist of any excessive strain and fatigue, the tool is mounted on the surgeon's forearm, making it parallel with the instrument's shaft. To evaluate the handle's performance and limitations, we constructed a surgical task simulator and compared our novel handle with a standard neurosurgical tool, with the tasks being performed by a consultant neurosurgeon. RESULTS: While using the proposed handle, the surgeon's average success rate was [Formula: see text], compared to [Formula: see text] when using a conventional tool. Additionally, the surgeon's body posture while using the suggested prototype was deemed acceptable by the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment ergonomic survey, while early results indicate the absence of a learning curve. CONCLUSIONS: Based on these preliminary results, the proposed handle prototype could offer an improvement over current neurosurgical tools and procedural ergonomics. By redirecting forces applied during the procedure to the forearm of the surgeon, and allowing for intuitive surgeon wrist to robot-joints movement mapping without compromising the robotic end effector's expanded workspace, we believe that this handle could prove a substantial step toward improved neurosurgical instrumentation.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | An intuitive surgical handle design for robotic neurosurgery. |
| Location: | Germany |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11548-021-02402-4 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-021-02402-4 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Ergonomics, Handheld robotics, Medical robotics, Neurosurgery, Robotic-assisted endonasal approach |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128481 |
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