Urology robotics

Urology robotics

Urology Robotics, or URobotics, is a new interdisciplinary field for the application of robots in urology and for the development of such systems and novel technologies in this clinical discipline [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11954067] , [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11564012] . Urology is among the medial fields with the highest rate of technology advances, which for several years has included the use medical robots.

Applications

The first surgical robot approved by the FDA is the [http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/index.aspx daVinci] system. Even though this was designed to assist in general Laparoscopy, most of its application are in the urology field for radical prostatectomy.

Other, purposely built URobotic systems are under development. These include image-guided robots that in addition to the direct visual feedback use medical images for guiding the intervention. Since MRI provides enhanced visualization of soft-tissues compared to x-ray based imaging, MRI compatible robots are being developed to assist the physician in performing the intervention [http://urology.jhu.edu/urobotics/projects/MrBot in the MRI scanner] . If prostate cancer lesions can be delineated in the image than robots can accurately target those lesions for biopsy or focal ablations.

External links

* [http://urology.jhu.edu/urobotics/ URobotics Program at the Johns Hopkins University]
* [http://urology.jhu.edu/urobotics/projects/MrBot MrBot: MRI Stealth robot for prostate interventions]


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