4 accepted papers
Robotic automation has the potential to assist human surgeons in performing suturing tasks in microsurgery, and in order to do so a robot must be able to guide a needle with sub-millimeter precision through soft tissue. This paper presents a robotic suturing system that uses 3D optical coherence tom…
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has found great success in ophthalmology where it plays a key role in screening and diagnostics. Clinical ophthalmic OCT systems are typically deployed as tabletop instruments that require chinrest stabilization and trained ophthalmic photographers to operate. Thes…
Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) is a promising technique for corneal transplantation that avoids the chronic immunosuppression comorbidities and graft rejection risk associated with penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), the standard procedure. In DALK, surgeons must insert a needle 90% through…
Intraoperative 3D imaging has great potential for enhancing surgical visualization. This is especially so in ophthalmic surgery where live volumetric imaging from optical coherence tomography systems recently incorporated into surgical microscopes has freed surgeons from the otherwise universal top-…