Brachytherapy (BT) is an innovative cancer treatment option that allows the delivery of high doses of radiation to specific areas of the body. BT has an important advantage: it doesn’t irradiate unnecessarily healthy tissue, but focalizes mainly on the destruction of tumorous cells. The paper presents an innovative parallel robot designed for BT and a needle trajectory planning software. The algorithm designed for virtual planning of robotic needle insertion allows automatic or manual definition of the needles trajectory. A virtual reality environment has been modelled and simulations using a real needle trajectory have been conducted.
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Gherman, B., Girbacia, T., Cocorean, D., Vaida, C., Butnariu, S., Plitea, N., & Talaba, D. (2016). Virtual Planning of Needle Guidance for a Parallel Robot used in Brachytherapy. In Mechanisms and Machine Science (Vol. 38, pp. 109–120). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23832-6_9
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