waterjet steerable needles

Our paper on fracture-directed waterjet needle steering is accepted to be presented at BioRob 2020 and also to be published in IEEE. The contributors of this paper are Mahdieh Babaiasl, Stefano Bocelli, and Fan Yang under the supervision of Dr. John Swensen. The abstract of this paper is: Steerable needle technology has the promise of improving outcomes by enhancing the accuracy of different therapies and biopsies, as they can be steered to a target location around obstacles. Achieving a small radius of curvature and being able to control both radius of curvature and tip travel is of paramount importance in…

Our paper on curvature control of waterjet steerable needles is accepted to be presented at ISMR 2020 and also to be published in IEEE. The contributors of this paper are Mahdieh Babaiasl, and Fan Yang under the supervision of Dr. John Swensen. The abstract of this paper is: Steerable needles are a type of medical devices that can steer around obstacles to reach a target location and thus can improve the accuracy of medical procedures. Radius-of-Curvature (ROC) is of paramount importance while designing steerable needles and achieving smaller radius and being able to control it is very important in evaluating…