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

SBIR 第二阶段：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: 2222580
• 负责人: Lev Koyrakh
• 金额: $ 97.38万
• 依托单位: RADWAVE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222580&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Modular; Reconfigurable

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is a novel electromagnetic navigation system offering 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 millions of patients worldwide. The system will enable tracking medical instruments over the full procedure space, improving accuracy and reliability, and reducing patients and staff exposure to harmful radiation while being compatible with the intraoperative imaging. The device will allow for the creation and augmentation of navigation volumes on demand during procedures as well as reliable detection and mitigation of electromagnetic interference. The broader societal impacts of the technology offer a flexible and highly customizable platform across key industry sectors important to the United States competitiveness including biomedical, consumer, industry, and defense. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will advance the development of a new electromagnetic navigation system that requires the solution of several complex problems involving mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering. Millions of minimally invasive medical procedures are performed annually worldwide which include cardiac ablations, valve replacements, bronchoscopies, orthopedic procedures, cancer treatments, etc., all 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, mostly 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. Current tools use bulky field generators incompatible with imaging equipment and provide only limited detection and correction of electromagnetic interference-induced location distortion. This project will address these shortcomings. The electromagnetic navigation system which will have robust detection and mitigation of various electromagnetic interferences, will enable procedure-time adjustable navigation volumes, will allow high location sampling rates with multiple sensors, and will be compatible with intraoperative fluoroscopy and computed tomography (CT) imaging, allowing for key differentiating features required for commercialization.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.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II期项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是一种新型的电磁导航系统，为多种医疗程序提供了一种变革性的解决方案，需要准确性，效率和安全性。这种能力及其随后的商业化的结果将对全球数百万患者的医疗程序结果产生积极影响。该系统将在完整的过程空间上跟踪医疗工具，提高准确性和可靠性，并减少患者和员工接触有害辐射，同时与术中成像兼容。该设备将允许在程序过程中创建和增强按需导航量，以及可靠的检测和缓解电子干扰。该技术的更广泛的社会影响为对美国竞争力至关重要的关键行业提供了一个灵活且高度可定制的平台，包括生物医学，消费者，工业和国防。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II期项目将推动开发新的电子导航系统，该系统需要解决涉及数学，计算机科学和电气工程的几个复杂问题。每年在全球范围内进行数百万个最低侵入性的医疗程序，其中包括心脏消融，瓣膜替代品，支气管镜，骨科手术，癌症治疗等，所有这些都随着机器人利用而增加。电磁导航系统被广泛用于这些过程中，当医疗仪器不在“视线”之外时，提供位置和方向的知识。当前可用的系统（主要是在大量采用机器人手术之前开发的），只能处理固定的导航量，并且通常无法在整个过程空间中跟踪仪器，这可能需要使用额外的有害X射线辐射。当前工具使用与成像设备不兼容的笨重场发生器，仅提供有限的检测和校正电磁干扰引起的位置失真。该项目将解决这些缺点。电磁导航系统将对各种电磁相互作用进行可靠的检测和缓解，将启用程序时间可调节的导航量，将允许具有多个传感器的高位置采样率，并且将与术中荧光镜兼容，并与孔隙术和计算机内摄影（CT）成像相吻合，并允许宣传特征，并启用了范围的范围，并具有宣传的特征。通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评论标准来通过评估来支持。