Magnetic Capsule Robots for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Abdominal Surgery

Valdastri, Pietro

Title:

Magnetic Capsule Robots for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Abdominal Surgery

dc.contributor.author	Valdastri, Pietro	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Vanderbilt University	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-19T18:50:58Z
dc.date.available	2013-09-19T18:50:58Z
dc.date.issued	2013-09-04
dc.description	Presented on September 4, 2013 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Room 1116	en_US
dc.description	Pietro Valdastri received a master’s degree in electronic engineering from University of Pisa, Italy, in 2002, and a PhD in biomedical engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, in 2006. After spending three years as an assistant professor of Biomedical Robotics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, he moved his research to Vanderbilt University in August 2011, where he is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering with a secondary appointment in the Division of Gastroenterology and also serves as director of the STORM Lab. Valdastri’s research focuses on the design and creation of mechatronic and self-contained devices for use inside specific districts of the human body to detect and cure diseases in a non-invasive way. He has extensively used magnetic fields to manipulate and control wireless and soft-tethered meso-scale robots inside body cavities, such as the gastrointestinal tract and abdomen. Valdastri’s research has been published in more than 55 peer-reviewed journal publications. Recently, his work received the Best Technology Award at the 19th International Congress of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery, the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2011 Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics, the 3 in 5 Competition Award at the 2012 ASME Design of Medical Devices Conference, and the OLYMPUS ISCAS Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 58:50 minutes.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The talk will move from capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy toward a new generation of surgical robots and devices, having a relevant reduction in invasiveness as the main driver for innovation. Wireless capsule endoscopy has already been extremely helpful for the diagnosis of diseases in the small intestine. Specific wireless capsule endoscopes have been proposed for colon inspection, but have never reached the diagnostic accuracy of standard colonoscopy. In the first part of the talk, we will discuss enabling technologies that have the potential to transform colonoscopy into a painless procedure. These technologies include magnetic manipulation of capsule endoscopes, real-time pose tracking, and intermagnetic force measurement. The second part of the talk will provide an overview about the development of novel robotic solutions for single incision robotic surgery. In particular, a novel surgical robotic platform based on local magnetic actuation will be presented as a possible approach to further minimize access trauma. The final part of the talk will introduce the novel concept of intraoperative wireless tissue palpation, presenting a capsule that can be directly manipulated by the surgeon to create a stiffness distribution map in real-time. This stiffness map can then be used to guide tissue resection with the goal of minimizing the healthy tissue being removed with the tumor.	en_US
dc.format.extent	58:50 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49003
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	IRIM Seminar Series
dc.subject	Robotics	en_US
dc.subject	Robotic surgery	en_US
dc.subject	Surgical robots	en_US
dc.subject	Automated colonoscopy	en_US
dc.title	Magnetic Capsule Robots for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Abdominal Surgery	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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