SBIR Phase I: Modular And Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Navigation System For Surgical Interventions And Medical Robotics

SBIR 第一阶段：用于外科手术和医疗机器人的模块化和可重构电磁导航系统

• 批准号: 2034987
• 负责人: Lev Koyrakh
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: RADWAVE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2034987&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Modular; Reconfigurable; Electromagnetic

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is a novel electromagnetic navigation system that offers a transformative solution for a wide range of medical procedures that demand accuracy, efficiency, and safety. The result of this capability and its subsequent commercialization will positively affect the outcomes of medical procedures for patients worldwide. The system will enable tracking medical instruments over the full procedure space, improve accuracy and reliability, and reduce patient and staff exposure to harmful radiation while being compatible with the intraoperative imaging. It will create and augment navigation volumes on demand during the medical procedures. The system will enable reliable detection and mitigation of electromagnetic interference. The commercial and market potential of this solution is significant based on customer discovery interviews with industry representatives seeking novel electromagnetic navigation capabilities for minimally invasive and robotic medical procedures. The broader societal impacts of the technology offer flexible and highly customizable platforms across key industry sectors important to United States competitiveness including biomedical, consumer, industrial, and defense sectors. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will advance the development of a new electromagnetic navigation system that requires solving several complex problems involving mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering. Millions of minimally invasive procedures are performed annually worldwide which include cardiac ablations, valve replacements, bronchoscopies, orthopedic procedures, cancer treatments, etc. All of these procedures are being treated with increasing robot utilization. Electromagnetic navigation systems are widely used in these procedures providing knowledge of locations and orientations when medical instruments are out of the “line of sight”. Currently available systems, developed before the wide adoption of robotic surgeries, can handle only fixed navigation volumes and are often unable to track instruments throughout the full procedure space, which may require the use of additional harmful X-ray radiation. The current systems use bulky field generators incompatible with imaging equipment and provide only limited detection and correction of electromagnetic interference-induced location distortion in the body. This project will address these shortcomings. It leverages the industry expertise and demand validation by leading companies in the minimally invasive and robotics markets, the efficiency and innovation of an experienced team, and a functional electromagnetic navigation system prototype developed by the company.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是一种新颖的电磁导航系统，它为需要准确性、效率和安全性的各种医疗程序提供了变革性的解决方案，并且其随后的商业化将会实现。该系统将能够在整个手术空间内跟踪医疗器械，提高准确性和可靠性，并减少患者和工作人员暴露于有害的内部辐射，同时与手术成像兼容。并增加导航量根据与寻求微创和机器人医疗程序的新型电磁导航功能的行业代表的客户发现访谈，该系统将能够可靠地检测和减轻电磁干扰。该技术具有更广泛的社会影响，为生物医学、消费、工业和国防等对美国竞争力至关重要的关键行业提供了灵活且高度可定制的平台。该小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目将推动一项技术的开发。新电磁导航系统需要解决涉及数学、计算机科学和电气工程的多个复杂问题。全世界每年进行数百万例微创手术，包括心脏消融、瓣膜置换、支气管镜检查、骨科手术、癌症治疗等。随着机器人利用率的不断提高，电磁导航系统在这些手术中被广泛使用，当医疗器械超出“视线”时，电磁导航系统可以提供位置和方向的信息，这些系统是在机器人手术广泛采用之前开发的。仅固定的导航体积，并且通常无法在整个程序空间中跟踪仪器，这可能需要使用额外的有害 X 射线辐射，当前系统使用与成像设备不兼容的庞大场发生器，并且仅提供有限的电磁检测和校正。该项目将利用微创和机器人市场领先公司的行业专业知识和需求验证、经验丰富的团队的效率和创新以及功能性电磁导航系统。原型开发者该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。