Uniting Robots and Ultrasound for Cardiac Repair

Howe, Robert

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Uniting Robots and Ultrasound for Cardiac Repair

dc.contributor.author	Howe, Robert
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Harvard University	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-25T17:51:01Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-25T17:51:01Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-09
dc.description	Presented on October 9, 2019 at 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Rooms 1116 E & W, Georgia Tech.	en_US
dc.description	This event is a joint seminar with the Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR).	en_US
dc.description	Robert D. Howe is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and faculty chair of the Harvard MS/MBA Program in Engineering Sciences. In 1990, Howe founded the Harvard BioRobotics Laboratory, which investigates the roles of sensing and mechanical design in motor control, in both humans and robots. His research interests focus on manipulation, the sense of touch, and human-machine interfaces. Biomedical applications of this work include the development of robotic and image-guided surgical procedures. Howe earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Reed College, then worked as a design engineer in the electronics industry in Silicon Valley. He received a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1990, and then joined the faculty at Harvard. Howe is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AIMBE, and he has won best paper awards at mechanical engineering, robotics, and surgery conferences.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 54:10 minutes	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Minimally invasive techniques have revolutionized many areas of surgery, but heart surgery has seen limited progress. We are working to combine ultrasound imaging and robotic manipulation to enable cardiac procedures that minimize patient impacts. One robotic system automatically points ultrasound catheters. This four-DOF robotic system enables panoramic views of internal heart structures and automatically tracks catheters working within the beating heart during minimally invasive procedures. Another robotic system uses real-time 3D ultrasound imaging for dynamic visualization of internal cardiac anatomy through the opaque blood pool. We have developed image processing algorithms that can track tissue structures and surgical instruments in real time, despite poor resolution, acoustic artifacts, and data rates of over 30 million voxels per second. For manipulation of rapidly moving cardiac tissue we have created robotic catheters that can keep pace with fast-moving tissue. This allows the surgeon to interact with the heart as if it was stationary. In vivo validation of this technology in atrial septal defect closure and mitral valve annuloplasty procedures demonstrate the potential for improved patient outcomes.	en_US
dc.format.extent	54:10 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61976
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	IRIM Seminar Series
dc.subject	Medical robotics	en_US
dc.subject	Robotics	en_US
dc.subject	Ultrasound	en_US
dc.title	Uniting Robots and Ultrasound for Cardiac Repair	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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