Image Guided In Vivo Tooling Platform for Minimal Access Surgery

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的重点是开发一种新构思的可插入机器人效应器平台，并将该平台与最近开发的可插入远程控制相机系统集成，用于最小访问手术。该项目将涉及工具平台的实际设计和构建，以及将成像平台（可插入相机系统）与工具集成为一个功能齐全的图像引导系统，以实现最小访问手术。这也可能包括在工具上添加各种传感器，以便来自成像平台和工具的结果数据流可以由集成信息系统处理，以控制干预。总体目标是开发一种颠覆性技术，包括可插入的图像源、广泛的手术工具和集成所有组件功能的计算机。这个系统应该提供以下好处。提高患者的安全性提高手术精度，减少周围组织损伤手术时间缩短手术可重复性提高从一个程序到下一个；更少的错误降低了每次手术的成本增加了患者的最小通道手术的可用性，因为它更容易让外科医生学习，因为它允许远程干预。我们提出的用于最小通道手术的新型可插入成像和效应平台的开发有可能增加最小通道手术的可用性，从而改善患者的预后。这将显著降低手术治疗的发病率和费用。这不仅包括实际外科手术的发病率和成本，还包括传统开放手术的巨大发病率和延迟后果的成本。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application focuses on the development of a newly conceived insertable robotic effector platform and the integration of that platform with a recently developed insertable, remotely controlled camera system to be used for minimal access surgery. The project will involve the actual design and construction of the platform for tools and the integration of the imaging platform (insertable camera system) with the tools into a fully functional image guided system for minimal access surgery. This may also include the additions of various sensors on the tools, so that the resultant data stream from both the imaging platform and the tools can be processed by the integrating information system to control the intervention. The overall aim is to develop a disruptive technology that includes an insertable image source, a wide range of surgical tools, and a computer to integrate the function of all components. This system should provide the following benefits. Increased patient safety Increased surgical precision with less surrounding tissue damage Procedures of shorter duration Increased reproducibility from one procedure to the next; fewer errors Decreased cost per procedure Increased availability of minimal access procedures to patients because it would be easier for surgeons to learn and because it would allow for intervention at a distance The development of our proposed new insertable imaging and effector platform for minimal access surgery has the potential to increase the availability of minimal access surgery to improve patient outcomes. This would result in a significant reduction in the morbidity and cost of surgical treatment. This includes not only the morbidity and cost of the actual surgical procedure, but also the enormous morbidity and cost of delayed consequences due to traditional open surgery.