Robert J Webster 3rd
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Recent Articles
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Dang K, Qiu S, Hatch C, Connor P, Qin T, Alterovitz R, et al.
Int Symp Med Robot
. 2025 Mar;
2024.
PMID: 40028171
The performance of concentric push-pull robots passing through endoscopes is best if their laser-cut transmission tubes exhibit high axial stiffness, high torsional stiffness, and low bending stiffness. In this paper...
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Ferguson J, Rucker D, Webster 3rd R
IEEE Trans Robot
. 2024 Oct;
40:1813-1827.
PMID: 39464302
Continuum robots navigate narrow, winding passageways while safely and compliantly interacting with their environments. Sensing the robot's shape under these conditions is often done indirectly, using a few coarsely distributed...
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Campisano F, Remirez A, Landewee C, Calo S, Obstein K, Webster 3rd R, et al.
IEEE Robot Autom Lett
. 2024 Aug;
5(4):6427-6434.
PMID: 39156224
Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with most new cases occurring in low and middle income countries, where access to screening programs is hindered by...
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Riojas K, Bruns T, Granna J, Smetak M, Labadie R, Webster 3rd R
Int J Med Robot
. 2024 Mar;
20(1):e2609.
PMID: 38536718
Background: Cochlear-implant electrode arrays (EAs) are currently inserted with limited feedback, and impedance sensing has recently shown promise for EA localisation. Methods: We investigate the use of impedance sensing to...
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Anderson P, Hendrick R, Rox M, Webster 3rd R
Int J Rob Res
. 2024 Mar;
43(1):53-68.
PMID: 38524963
Understanding elastic instability has been a recent focus of concentric tube robot research. Modeling advances have enabled prediction of when instabilities will occur and produced metrics for the stability of...
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Cannon P, Ferguson J, Pitt E, Shrand J, Setia S, Nimmagadda N, et al.
IEEE Open J Eng Med Biol
. 2024 Mar;
5:133-139.
PMID: 38487093
We present a new framework for in vivo image guidance evaluation and provide a case study on robotic partial nephrectomy. This framework (called the "bystander protocol") involves two surgeons, one...
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Kuntz A, Emerson M, Ertop T, Fried I, Fu M, Hoelscher J, et al.
Sci Robot
. 2023 Sep;
8(82):eadf7614.
PMID: 37729421
The use of needles to access sites within organs is fundamental to many interventional medical procedures both for diagnosis and treatment. Safely and accurately navigating a needle through living tissue...
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Rox M, Esser D, Smith M, Ertop T, Emerson M, Maldonado F, et al.
IEEE Robot Autom Lett
. 2023 Jun;
8(6):3494-3501.
PMID: 37333046
Toward the future goal of creating a lung surgery system featuring multiple tentacle-like robots, we present a new folding concept for continuum robots that enables them to squeeze through openings...
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Hoelscher J, Fried I, Fu M, Patwardhan M, Christman M, Akulian J, et al.
Rep U S
. 2023 May;
2022:9526-9533.
PMID: 37153690
Steerable needles are medical devices with the ability to follow curvilinear paths to reach targets while circumventing obstacles. In the deployment process, a human operator typically places the steerable needle...
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Chiluisa A, Van Rossum F, Gafford J, Labadie R, Webster 3rd R, Fichera L
Int Symp Med Robot
. 2023 Feb;
2020:188-194.
PMID: 36844884
This paper presents a computational framework to optimize the visual coverage attainable by a notched-tube continuum robotic endoscope inside the middle ear cavity. Our framework combines anatomically-accurate geometric (mesh) models...