Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery

Sci Robot. 2024 Feb 28;9(87):eado3187. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.ado3187. Epub 2024 Feb 28.

Bradley J Nelson¹, Bernard R Bendok^{2

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¹ Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Department of Neurological Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
³ Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
⁵ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery/Audiology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
⁶ Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
⁷ University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
⁸ University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine, Tyler, TX, USA.

Abstract

Medical devices actuated by external magnetic fields can create opportunities for clinical adoption of precision telesurgery.