Title :
A free-hand surface tracking and motion compensation microsurgical tool system based on common-path optical coherence tomography distance sensor
Author :
Zhang, Kang ; Petrillo, Keith G. ; Gehlbach, Peter L. ; Kang, Jin U.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
We have developed and tested a compact free-hand microsurgical tool-concept based on CP-OCT distance-sensor and 1-D actuation, which is capable of tracking the surface of surgical target tissue and compensating tool-tissue relative-motion with micrometer resolution.
Keywords :
Biomedical optical imaging; Micromotors; Microsurgery; Motion compensation; Needles; Optical sensors; Sensor systems; Surgery; Tomography; Tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
