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Wireless micro-robots for endoscopic applications in urology

2017

Conference Paper

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Endoscopy is an essential and common method for both diagnostics and therapy in Urology. Current flexible endoscope is normally cable-driven, thus it is hard to be miniaturized and its reachability is restricted as only one bending section near the tip with one degree of freedom (DoF) is allowed. Recent progresses in micro-robotics offer a unique opportunity for medical inspections in minimally invasive surgery. Micro-robots are active devices that has a feature size smaller than one millimeter and can normally be actuated and controlled wirelessly. Magnetically actuated micro-robots have been demonstrated to propel through biological fluids.Here, we report a novel micro robotic arm, which is actuated wirelessly by ultrasound. It works as a miniaturized endoscope with a side length of ~1 mm, which fits through the 3 Fr. tool channel of a cystoscope, and successfully performs an active cystoscopy in a rabbit bladder.

Author(s): Adams, Fabian and Qiu, Tian and Mark, A. G. and Melde, Kai and Palagi, Stefano and Miernik, A. and Fischer, Peer
Book Title: Eur Urol Suppl
Volume: 16
Number (issue): 3
Pages: e1914
Year: 2017
Month: March

Department(s): Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

DOI: 10.1016/S1569-9056(17)31148-X

State: Published
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156990561731148X?via%3Dihub

BibTex

@inproceedings{2017adams2,
  title = {Wireless micro-robots for endoscopic applications in urology},
  author = {Adams, Fabian and Qiu, Tian and Mark, A. G. and Melde, Kai and Palagi, Stefano and Miernik, A. and Fischer, Peer},
  booktitle = {Eur Urol Suppl},
  volume = {16},
  number = {3},
  pages = {e1914},
  month = mar,
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1016/S1569-9056(17)31148-X},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156990561731148X?via%3Dihub},
  month_numeric = {3}
}