Comparison of manual steering and steering via joystick of a flexible rhino endoscope

Author

Eckl, R. ; Gumprecht, J.D.J. ; Strauss, G. ; Hofer, M. ; Dietz, A. ; Lueth, T.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Micro Technol. & Med. Device Technol., Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Garching, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010

Firstpage

1234

Lastpage

1237

Abstract

Flexible endoscopes are used in ENT surgery for examination tasks in cases wherever rigid endoscopes are unsuitable to reach certain positions in the nasal cavity. Until today they are steered by hand and no robotized system has been put into clinical practice. One qualification a robot manipulator system has to fulfill to be accepted is not to create new disadvantages compared to the conventional method in surgery. An important factor is the time needed to steer the new system compared to the time needed to steer the conventional system. In this article a robot manipulator system and an experiment are presented to compare the particular times test persons need to perform a certain task. This approach offers the possibility to benchmark the developed robot manipulator system and future systems for flexible rhino endoscopes.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; endoscopes; interactive devices; manipulators; medical robotics; surgery; ENT surgery; flexible rhino endoscope; joystick; manual steering; nasal cavity; rigid endoscopes; robot manipulator system; Cavity resonators; Endoscopes; Manipulators; Servomotors; Surgery; Computer Peripherals; Endoscopes; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Man-Machine Systems; Robotics; Surgery, Computer-Assisted; Task Performance and Analysis; Telemedicine; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Buenos Aires

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4123-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626433

Filename

5626433