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Development of an Endoscopic Continuum Robot to Enable Transgastric Surgical Obesity Treatment

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2012)

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This paper presents the development of an endoscopic continuum robot for surgical obesity treatment using a transgastric approach. This proposed transgastric gastroplasty approach performs suturing and resizing of a stomach from inside, aiming at further reducing postoperative complications by avoiding the use of skin incisions. The presented design can be inserted into the stomach in a folded configuration and can be unfolded into a working configuration to perform surgical interventions. It uses sutures fabricated from pre-curved super-elastic NiTi (Nickel-Titanium) alloy to facilitate the motion of tissue penetration. Role of the NiTi needle is demonstrated in in-vitro tissue penetrating experiments, while deployment of this endoscopic robot was verified on the prototype.

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  1. University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Kai Xu & Jiangran Zhao

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Albert J. Shih

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, H3G 1M8, Montreal, Canada

    Chun-Yi Su

  2. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, 1515 St. Catherine St. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Subhash Rakheja

  3. School of Creative Technologies, The University of Portsmouth, PO1 2DJ, Portsmouth, UK

    Honghai Liu

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Xu, K., Zhao, J., Shih, A.J. (2012). Development of an Endoscopic Continuum Robot to Enable Transgastric Surgical Obesity Treatment. In: Su, CY., Rakheja, S., Liu, H. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7506. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33509-9_59

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