Engineering and Imaging Basics for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Engineering and Imaging Basics for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery covers minimally invasive surgical technology principles, taxonomy, registration, image fusion, planning and navigation, master and slave design characteristics, sensors and actuators, robot control, augmented reality and autonomy, user interfaces. This book also covers surgical robots for different surgical applications. Contains a chapter on surgical robots with various examples, explaining essential concepts using state-of-the-art robots spanning from ENT to neurosurgery and orthopaedic robots. This book provides underlying principles in modern minimally invasive surgery and serves as a reference for both medical and engineering and computing students. This book helps MSc and Ph.D. students approaching the field of image-guided surgery and surgical robotics, acting as a tutorial providing useful references for basic concepts and offering a recent update on current research directions.