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Early clinical experience with a “hands-on” robotic system for total knee replacement surgery is presented. The system consists of a pre-operative CT based planning software, a small special purpose robot called Acrobot (active constraint robot) mounted on a gross positioning device and special leg fixtures. The surgeon guides the Acrobot under active constraint control, which constrains the motion into a predefined region, and thus allows surfaces of the bones to be machined safely and with high accuracy. A non-invasive anatomical registration method is used. The system was clinically tested on 7 patients with encouraging results.
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Jakopec, M., Harris, S.J., Rodriguez y Baena, F., Gomes, P., Cobb, J., Davies, B.L. (2002). Preliminary Results of an Early Clinical Experience with the Acrobot™ System for Total Knee Replacement Surgery. In: Dohi, T., Kikinis, R. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention — MICCAI 2002. MICCAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2488. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45786-0_32
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