Simulation and planning of a magnetically actuated microrobot navigating in the arteries

IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2013 Apr;60(4):994-1001. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2236092. Epub 2012 Dec 21.

Abstract

This paper presents a preoperative microrobotic surgical simulation and planning application. The main contribution is to support computer-aided minimally invasive surgery (MIS) procedure using untethered microrobots that have to navigate within the arterial networks. We first propose a fast interactive application (with endovascular tissues) able to simulate the blood flow and microrobot interaction. Second, we also propose a microrobotic surgical planning framework, based on the anisotropic fast marching method (FMM), that provides a feasible pathway robust to biomedical navigation constraints. We demonstrate the framework performance in a case study of the treatment of peripheral arterial diseases.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Endovascular Procedures / instrumentation*
  • Endovascular Procedures / methods*
  • Humans
  • Magnets
  • Models, Cardiovascular*
  • Pulsatile Flow
  • Robotics / instrumentation*
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / methods*