Development of new type tactile endoscope with silicone rubber membrane

Author

Susuki, Yuto ; Yamada, Kenji ; Shimizu, Sachiko ; Ohno, Yuko ; Nagakura, Toshiaki ; Ishihara, Ken

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Med., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We have developed new type tactile endoscope with silicone rubber membrane. The system consists of silicone rubber membrane, image sensor and illumination system. A surface of the Silicone rubber membrane has any patterns which made by nanotechnology. This pattern is deformed by pressing tissue such as cancer, colon and so on. The deformed pattern is captured by image sensor. This pattern is analyzed by image processing. In this paper, the proposed architecture is presented. With several test targets, the characteristics of the prototype systems are evaluated in the computation simulation.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; cancer; endoscopes; image reconstruction; image sensors; medical image processing; nanobiotechnology; silicone rubber; tactile sensors; cancer; colon; computation simulation; illumination system; image processing; image reconstruction; image sensor; nanotechnology; prototype systems; silicone rubber membrane; tactile endoscope; tissue; Biomembranes; Endoscopes; Lattices; Lenses; Rubber; Shape; Surgery; Endoscope; Image processing; Nanotechnology; Tactile sensibility;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World Automation Congress (WAC), 2010

Conference_Location

Kobe

ISSN

2154-4824

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9673-0

Electronic_ISBN

2154-4824

Type

conf

Filename

5665307