A Medical Robotic Platform for Surgical and Interventional Procedures

用于外科手术和介入手术的医疗机器人平台

• 批准号: RTI-2019-00887
• 负责人: JanabiSharifi, Farrokh
• 金额: $ 5.36万
• 依托单位: Ryerson University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=654499
• 关键词: Medical; Robotic; Platform; Surgical; Interventional

Surgical and interventional robotics has received an increasing attention in the recent years due to the effectiveness of robot-assisted procedures, leading to reduced complications, faster recovery and shorter hospitalization. From the physicians' perspective, robots augment the medical staff by imparting superhuman capabilities, such as high motion speed and accuracy, enabling high-precision operations in confined spaces. The recent analysis (by Reuters) also reveals an expected market growth of 20.8% for medical robotics industry during 2017-2023. Therefore, research progress in surgical and interventional robotics is of imminent importance to both healthcare and growing biomedical industry of Canada. Despite its recent progress, surgical and interventional robotics presents significant research opportunities, including design of instruments and control methods to overcome challenges due to the requirements for miniaturization, safety, and adaptation to changing conditions. *** The requested equipment, a seven degrees-of-freedom medical robotic manipulator, is the only economic desktop robot with international certification for medical research and development activities and working in a close proximity to the humans. Because its certification procedure is internationally recognized, the complexity of the development and licensing process for the related products is substantially reduced. This advantage will facilitate pre-clinical testing and further collaborations with the industry. The flexible control architecture of the requested model will also ease rapid integration of various sensing and control methods, and accommodation of different applications, leading to the increased usage of the equipment. *** The requested robot would enable research programs of the applicants aimed at developing new and important surgical and interventional robotic technologies for emerging medical robotics industry of Canada and Canadian healthcare. The research programs of the applicants that will immediately benefit from the requested equipment include projects related to: (1) image-guided continuum robots for medical interventions, with the focus on cardiac catheterization; (2) robotic high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); and (3) telerobotic platforms for robotic surgery, focusing on neurosurgery, ocular surgery, and lung biopsy. *** Besides the applicants and collaborators, their graduate and undergraduate students will be trained to operate state-of-the-art medical robotic systems, and learn advanced robotic measurement, control, and navigation methods, and in-vivo experimentation techniques for medical applications. These skills will be important to their studies and in high-demand by Canadian healthcare and biomedical industry. In addition to Ryerson university, this new equipment will expand medical robotics research capacity of iBest (Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Technology) and partner hospitals. *****

由于机器人辅助手术的有效性，手术和介入的机器人技术在近年来受到了越来越多的关注，导致并发症减少，恢复速度更快，住院时间较短。 从医生的角度来看，机器人通过传授超人的能力（例如高运动速度和准确性）来增强医务人员，从而在狭窄的空间中实现高精度操作。最近的分析（路透社）还显示，2017 - 2023年，医疗机器人技术行业的预期市场增长为20.8％。因此，手术和介入机器人技术方面的研究进展对于加拿大的医疗保健和生物医学行业至关重要。尽管它最近取得了进展，但手术和介入的机器人技术仍带来了重要的研究机会，包括设计工具和控制方法，以克服小型化，安全性和适应不断变化条件的要求，以克服挑战。 ***所要求的设备是七个自由度医疗机器人操纵器，是唯一具有国际医学研发活动认证的经济桌面机器人，并与人类非常接近。 由于其认证程序是国际认可的，因此相关产品的开发和许可过程的复杂性大大降低了。 这一优势将促进临床前测试和与行业的进一步合作。所请求的模型的灵活控制架构还将简化各种传感和控制方法的快速整合，以及对不同应用的适应，从而增加设备的使用情况。 ***所要求的机器人将使旨在为加拿大新兴医疗机器人行业和加拿大医疗保健开发新的，重要的手术和介入机器人技术的申请人研究计划。 将立即从请求的设备中受益的申请人的研究计划包括与以下设备有关的项目：（1）图像引导的连续性机器人用于医疗干预措施，重点是心脏导管插入术； （2）机器人高强度聚焦超声（HIFU）； （3）用于机器人手术的远程动物平台，专注于神经外科手术，眼科手术和肺活检。 ***除了申请人和合作者，他们的毕业生和本科生还将接受培训以操作最先进的医疗机器人系统，并学习先进的机器人测量，控制和导航方法，以及用于医疗应用的体内实验技术。 这些技能对他们的研究以及加拿大医疗保健和生物医学行业的高需求至关重要。 除了瑞尔森大学外，这种新设备还将扩大Ibest（生物医学工程，科学和技术研究所）和合作伙伴医院的医学机器人研究能力。 *****