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Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Study of a Flexible Cardiac Stabilizer for Beating Heart Robotic Surgery
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Farahmand, Farzam (Supervisor)
Abstract
A popular way for performing minimally invasive heart surgery is to use cardiac stabilizers that fix the heart during surgery. In the recent years several research works have been conducted to develop effective cardiac stabilizers. While these developments have attempted to improve fixation of the heart, there are reports indicating that a rigid cardiac stabilization may induce injury to heart muscle tissues due to restricting the heart motion in all directions. A more efficient approach than rigid cardiac stabilization might be to use a flexible cardiac stabilizer in combination with a surgical robot having motion compensation capability. The scope of this research is designing a device to...
Heart Motion Measurement and Prediction for Robotic Assisted Beating Heart Surgery
, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Farahmand, Farzam (Supervisor) ; Vossoughi, Gholamreza (Supervisor)
Abstract
An essential requirement for performing robotic assisted surgery on a freely beating heart is a prediction algorithm which can estimate the future heart trajectory with a high accuracy in a long horizon. The main objective of this research was measurement and prediction of the heart motion for robotic assisted beating heart surgery. In this study, first the feasibility of a stereo infrared tracking system for measuring the free beating heart motion was investigated by experiments on a heart motion simulator. Simulator experiments revealed a high tracking accuracy when the capturing times were synchronized and the tracker pointed at the target from an appropriate distance.Then, the heart...