Article
MIRA V: An Integrated System for Minimally Invasive Robot-assisted Lung Brachytherapy
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-1-2008
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543663
Disciplines
Abstract
An integrated system for minimally invasive robot-assisted image-guided lung brachytherapy has been developed. The system incorporates an experimental setup for accurate radioactive seed placement with commercially available dosimetry planning software. The end result is a complete system that allows planning and executing a brachytherapy procedure with increased accuracy. The results of the in vitro seed placement evaluation show that seed misplacement has a significant effect on the volume receiving more than 200% of the dose (V200), and the minimum dosage received by 90% of the volume (D90).
Citation Information
A. L. Trejos, A. W. Lin, S. Mohan, H. Bassan, et al.. "MIRA V: An Integrated System for Minimally Invasive Robot-assisted Lung Brachytherapy" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008 (2008) p. 2982 - 2987 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard_malthaner/21/