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Mechatronics in Medicine

The MIM Lab develops robotic and mechatronics surgical systems for a variety of procedures.

Head of Group

B415C Bessemer Building
South Kensington Campus

+44 (0)20 7594 7046

What we do

The Mechatronics in Medicine Laboratory develops robotic and mechatronics surgical systems for a variety of procedures including neuro, cardiovascular, orthopaedic surgeries, and colonoscopies. Examples include bio-inspired catheters that can navigate along complex paths within the brain (such as EDEN2020), soft robots to explore endoluminal anatomies (such as the colon), and virtual reality solutions to support surgeons during knee replacement surgeries.

Meet the team

Mr Ayhan Akta_
Research Postgraduate

Dr Daniel Bautista Salinas
Research Associate

Dr Kaiwen Chen
Research Associate

Mr Zejian Cui
Research Assistant

Mr Connor Daly
Research Postgraduate

Emeritus Professor Brian L Davies FREng
Emeritus Professor

Mr Zhaoyang Jacopo Hu
Research Postgraduate

Dr Hisham M Iqbal
Research Associate

Mr Alex Ranne
Research Postgraduate

Professor Ferdinando M Rodriguez y Baena
Co-Director of Hamlyn Centre, Professor of Medical Robotics

Dr Jialei Shi
Research Associate

Mr Spyridon Souipas
Casual - Other work

Ms Emilia Zari
Research Postgraduate

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Oldfield:2015:10.1007/s10439-015-1329-0,
author = {Oldfield, MJ and Leibinger, A and Seah, TE and Rodriguez, Y Baena F},
doi = {10.1007/s10439-015-1329-0},
journal = {Annals of Biomedical Engineering},
pages = {2794--2803},
title = {Method to Reduce Target Motion Through Needle-Tissue Interactions.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-015-1329-0},
volume = {43},
year = {2015}
}

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TY - JOUR
AB - During minimally invasive surgical procedures, it is often important to deliver needles to particular tissue volumes. Needles, when interacting with a substrate, cause deformation and target motion. To reduce reliance on compensatory intra-operative imaging, a needle design and novel delivery mechanism is proposed. Three-dimensional finite element simulations of a multi-segment needle inserted into a pre-existing crack are presented. The motion profiles of the needle segments are varied to identify methods that reduce target motion. Experiments are then performed by inserting a needle into a gelatine tissue phantom and measuring the internal target motion using digital image correlation. Simulations indicate that target motion is reduced when needle segments are stroked cyclically and utilise a small amount of retraction instead of being held stationary. Results are confirmed experimentally by statistically significant target motion reductions of more than 8% during cyclic strokes and 29% when also incorporating retraction, with the same net insertion speed. By using a multi-segment needle and taking advantage of frictional interactions on the needle surface, it is demonstrated that target motion ahead of an advancing needle can be substantially reduced.
AU - Oldfield,MJ
AU - Leibinger,A
AU - Seah,TE
AU - Rodriguez,Y Baena F
DO - 10.1007/s10439-015-1329-0
EP - 2803
PY - 2015///
SN - 1573-9686
SP - 2794
TI - Method to Reduce Target Motion Through Needle-Tissue Interactions.
T2 - Annals of Biomedical Engineering
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-015-1329-0
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/24474
VL - 43
ER -