This paper presents the development of an endoscopic continuum robot for surgical obesity treatment using a transgastric approach. This proposed transgastric gastroplasty approach performs suturing and resizing of a stomach from inside, aiming at further reducing postoperative complications by avoiding the use of skin incisions. The presented design can be inserted into the stomach in a folded configuration and can be unfolded into a working configuration to perform surgical interventions. It uses sutures fabricated from pre-curved super-elastic NiTi (Nickel-Titanium) alloy to facilitate the motion of tissue penetration. Role of the NiTi needle is demonstrated in in-vitro tissue penetrating experiments, while deployment of this endoscopic robot was verified on the prototype. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.
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Xu, K., Zhao, J., & Shih, A. J. (2012). Development of an endoscopic continuum robot to enable transgastric surgical obesity treatment. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7506 LNAI, pp. 589–600). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33509-9_59
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