Title :
Tracking rotation and translation of laser microsurgical instruments
Author :
Ortiz, R. ; Riviere, C.N.
Author_Institution :
Robotics Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
An accurate optical sensing system has been developed to measure the position and orientation of a laser beam in two dimensions. The system is useful for evaluation of the accuracy of hand-held laser microsurgical instruments. The apparatus uses a lens and a beam-splitter to receive the incoming laser beam. Two position sensitive detectors placed at different distances from the beam splitter make it possible to rapidly and accurately calculate the position and orientation of the axis of the laser.
Keywords :
angular measurement; laser applications in medicine; optical beam splitters; optical sensors; position sensitive particle detectors; surgery; tracking; angular measurement; beam-splitter; laser beam; laser microsurgical instruments; lens; optical sensing system; position sensitive detector; tracking rotation; tracking translation; tremor; Instruments; Laser beams; Microsurgery; Optical beam splitting; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Position measurement; Position sensitive particle detectors; Robot sensing systems; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280878
