Jan 19, 2009 · Image guidance promises to improve targeting accuracy and broaden the scope of medical procedures performed with needles.

This paper takes a step toward automating the guidance of a flexible tip-steerable needle as it is inserted into human tissue.

Oct 22, 2024 · Image guidance promises to improve targeting accuracy and broaden the scope of medical procedures performed with needles.

Image guidance promises to improve targeting accuracy and broaden the scope of medical procedures performed with needles. This paper takes a step toward ...

A previously proposed nonholonomic model of needles that derive steering from asymmetric bevel forces at the tip is built upon, showing that the needle tip ...

Image guidance promises to improve targeting accuracy and broaden the scope of needle interventions. In this paper, we consider the possibility of automating ...

Nov 30, 2021 · This paper investigates the image guidance control of flexible tip-steerable needles subject to random time delay of control input.

The aim of needle steering is to accurately guide the tip of a flexible needle to a target while avoiding obstacles along the path. When performing manual ...

This chapter describes how advances in needle design, modeling, planning, and image guidance make it possible to steer flexible needles from outside the ...