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Neurological Disease Diagnosis and Treatment via Precise Robotic Intervention
Neurological Disease Diagnosis and Treatment via Precise Robotic Intervention
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Meinhold, Waiman Modeling
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Ueda, Jun
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This work focuses on the development and application of mechatronic systems for measurement, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic neurological conditions. The development of an automated tendon reflex stimulation device, as well as analysis and classification methods for both automated and manual stimulus delivery will provide the groundwork for improvements to both diagnosis and treatment of neurological injuries. In a similar vein, development of a variable resonance actuator for Magnetic Resonance Elastography imaging enables tissue property measurement of the intervertebral discs, hopefully providing an early marker and better understanding of degeneration. In addition to MRI based spinal tissue property measurements, an MRI guided high precision robot is developed for direct injection into the spinal cord, along with an accompanying image guided control scheme. The novel parallel plane mechanism enables control of 4 degrees of freedom, while the linear piezoelectric actuators in a direct drive configuration enables superior accuracy. Taken together, these robotic device developments constitute contributions to the field of precision medical robotics with applications to physiological understanding of the human body.
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2021-05-18
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