Fetal Echography Remotely Controlled Using A Tele- Operated Motorized Probe and Echograph Unit

Tele-Operated Echography and Remote Guidance for Performing Tele-Echography on Geographically Isolated Patients

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of three tele-echography systems for routine use in isolated medical centers. METHODS Three systems were used for deep (abdomen, pelvis, fetal) and superficial (muscle, thyroid, carotid artery) examinations: (a) a robotic arm (RA) holding an echographic probe; (b) an echograph with a motorized probe (MP); and (c) remote guidance (RG) where the patient sit...

Developed title: Echographic examination in isolated sites controlled from an expert center using a 2D Echograph guided by a tele-operated robotic arm

Experiments with the TER Tele-echography Robot

This paper presents a master-slave system applied to the remote diagnosis from echographic data. The motion of the master manipulator is remotely controlled by a physician and reproduced by a slave robot carrying the echographic probe. The contact force between the probe and the patient is fed back to operator allowing him to have a haptic virtual environment. The innovation of this haptic cont...

TER: A System for Robotic Tele-echography

The quality of ultrasound based diagnosis highly depends on the operator’s skills. Some healthcare centres may not have the required medical experts on hand when needed and therefore may not benefit from highly specialized ultrasound examinations. The aim of this project is to provide a reliable solution in order to perform expert ultrasound examinations in distant geographical areas and for th...

Miniature motorized microdrive and commutator system for chronic neural recording in small animals.

The use of chronically implanted electrodes for neural recordings in small, freely behaving animals poses several unique technical challenges. Because of the need for an extremely lightweight apparatus, chronic recording technology has been limited to manually operated microdrives, despite the advantage of motorized manipulators for positioning electrodes. Here we describe a motorized, miniatur...