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| Introduction | p. xi |
| Characteristics and State of the Art | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Characteristics of medical robotics | p. 1 |
| Potential advantages of using a robot in a medical procedure | p. 5 |
| State of the art | p. 7 |
| Surgery of the head and neck | p. 8 |
| Orthopedic surgery | p. 13 |
| Mini-invasive or laparoscopic surgery | p. 17 |
| ... MORE | p. 23 |
| Remote ultrasound | p. 29 |
| Radiotherapy and radiology | p. 33 |
| Other applications | p. 39 |
| Conclusion | p. 42 |
| Bibliography | p. 42 |
| Medical Robotics in the Service of the Patient | p. 55 |
| Introduction | p. 55 |
| Medical robotics: a field in full development | p. 55 |
| How and why has there been such development? | p. 56 |
| Medical service: a complex notion | p. 57 |
| A cycle of medical service growth | p. 58 |
| The actors | p. 58 |
| A model for the development of the medical service | p. 61 |
| Development diagram | p. 63 |
| A case study: the ViKY robotic endoscope support system | p. 64 |
| The context | p. 64 |
| ViKY and the progression of medical service | p. 64 |
| Relevance of the evaluation of the medical service | p. 66 |
| Conclusion | p. 67 |
| Bibliography | p. 67 |
| Inter-operative Sensors and Registration | p. 69 |
| Introduction | p. 69 |
| Summary of the context and the problem | p. 69 |
| Notions of registration, calibration and tracking | p. 70 |
| Intra-operative sensors | p. 72 |
| Imaging sensors | p. 72 |
| Position sensors | p. 74 |
| Surface sensors | p. 75 |
| Other sensors | p. 76 |
| Principles of registration | p. 76 |
| Notations and definitions | p. 76 |
| Nature of the transformation | p. 77 |
| Matched information | p. 78 |
| Similarity metrics | p. 79 |
| 3D/3D rigid registration | p. 84 |
| Open questions | p. 86 |
| Case studies | p. 87 |
| Case no. 1 (interventional radiology) | p. 87 |
| Case no. 2 | p. 88 |
| Case no. 3 (Velocityy) | p. 90 |
| Case no. 4 | p. 92 |
| Discussion and conclusion | p. 96 |
| Bibliography | p. 97 |
| Augmented Reality | p. 101 |
| Introduction | p. 101 |
| 3D modeling of abdominal structures and pathological structures | p. 104 |
| 3D visualization system for planning | p. 107 |
| Interactive AR | p. 108 |
| Concept | p. 108 |
| An example application | p. 108 |
| The limits of such a system | p. 110 |
| Automatic AR | p. 110 |
| Augumented reality with fixed camera(s) | p. 111 |
| AR with a mobile camera | p. 120 |
| Taking distortions into account | p. 122 |
| Case Study | p. 124 |
| Percutaneous punctures | p. 124 |
| Bronchoscopic Navigation | p. 126 |
| Neurosurgery | p. 127 |
| Conclusions | p. 129 |
| Bibliography | p. 130 |
| Design of Medical Robots | p. 141 |
| Introduction | p. 141 |
| From the characterization of gestures to the design of robots | p. 145 |
| Analysis of the gesture | p. 145 |
| Kinematic and dynamic specifications | p. 145 |
| Kinematic choices | p. 149 |
| Design methodologies | p. 157 |
| Concept selection | p. 158 |
| Optimization of design parameters | p. 161 |
| Technological choices | p. 165 |
| Actuators | p. 165 |
| Sensors | p. 166 |
| Material | p. 167 |
| Security | p. 167 |
| Introduction | p. 167 |
| Security and dependability | p. 168 |
| Risks reduction in medical robotics | p. 168 |
| Conclusion | p. 171 |
| Bibliography | p. 172 |
| Vision-based Control | p. 177 |
| Introduction | p. 177 |
| Configurations of the imaging device | p. 178 |
| Type of measurement | p. 179 |
| Type of control | p. 181 |
| Sensors | p. 183 |
| Imaging devices | p. 184 |
| Localizers | p. 193 |
| Acquisition of the measurement | p. 193 |
| Acquisition of geometric primitives | p. 194 |
| Tracking of anatomical targets | p. 202 |
| Review of methods for image processing | p. 214 |
| Control | p. 216 |
| Modeling the visual servoing loop | p. 216 |
| Online identification of the interaction matrix | p. 221 |
| Control laws | p. 223 |
| Perspectives | p. 224 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Interaction Modeling and Force Control | p. 233 |
| Modeling interactions during medico-surgical procedures | p. 233 |
| Introduction | p. 233 |
| Properties of tissues with small displacements | p. 234 |
| Non-viscoelastic models | p. 237 |
| Estimation of force models | p. 238 |
| Case study: needle-tissue interactions during a percutaneous intervention | p. 239 |
| Force control | p. 243 |
| Force control strategies | p. 244 |
| Implicit force control | p. 244 |
| Explicit force control | p. 247 |
| Stability | p. 250 |
| Choice of a control architecture | p. 251 |
| Application examples | p. 251 |
| Conclusion | p. 263 |
| Bibliography | p. 263 |
| Tele-manipulation | p. 269 |
| Introduction | p. 269 |
| The limitations of autonomy | p. 269 |
| Non-autonomous modes of intervention | p. 270 |
| Tele-manipulation in the medical field: interest and applications | p. 270 |
| Tele-manipulation and medical practices | p. 271 |
| Background | p. 271 |
| Action and perception modalities | p. 273 |
| Technology | p. 275 |
| Tele-manipulation with force feedback | p. 278 |
| Introduction | p. 278 |
| Modeling master-slave tele-manipulators (MST) | p. 279 |
| Transparency and stability | p. 281 |
| Bilateral tele-operation control schemes | p. 284 |
| Improvement of existing techniques for medical issues | p. 292 |
| Example: tele-operated needle insertion in interventional radiology | p. 294 |
| Prospects | p. 298 |
| Bibliography | p. 298 |
| Comanipulation | p. 303 |
| Introduction | p. 303 |
| Tele-manipulate, but without the distance | p. 303 |
| Definitions | p. 305 |
| Features and applications in medical and surgical robotics | p. 307 |
| A word about terminology | p. 308 |
| Contents | p. 308 |
| General principles of comanipulation | p. 309 |
| Serial comanipulation | p. 309 |
| Parallel comanipulation | p. 313 |
| Serial comanipulation: intelligent active instrumentation | p. 316 |
| Dexterous instruments for minimally-invasive surgery | p. 316 |
| Tremor filtering in microsurgery | p. 322 |
| Compensation of physiological movements | p. 326 |
| Parallel comanipulation | p. 331 |
| Comanipulation in transparent mode | p. 331 |
| Passive, active, static and dynamic guides | p. 334 |
| Increase the quality of the tactile perception | p. 340 |
| A human in the loop | p. 343 |
| Bibliography | p. 346 |
| Towards Intracorporeal Robotics | p. 351 |
| Introduction | p. 351 |
| Mini-manipulators/tele-operated instrument holders | p. 352 |
| Objectives | p. 352 |
| General description | p. 353 |
| Challenges | p. 356 |
| Robotized colonoscopes and autonomous capsules | p. 357 |
| Objectives | p. 357 |
| General description | p. 358 |
| Challenges | p. 360 |
| Active catheters | p. 362 |
| Objectives | p. 362 |
| General description | p. 363 |
| Challenges | p. 363 |
| Evolution of surgical robotics | p. 366 |
| Towards more autonomous robots | p. 366 |
| Towards a much less invasive surgery | p. 369 |
| Towards the bio-nanorobotics | p. 371 |
| Additional information | p. 386 |
| Preamble | p. 386 |
| The shape memory alloys (SMA) | p. 387 |
| Electroactive polymers | p. 387 |
| Bibliography | p. 388 |
| Conclusion | p. 397 |
| Notations | p. 399 |
| Medical Glossary | p. 401 |
| List of Authors | p. 407 |
| Index | p. 409 |
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