Steerable-Tip Endoscope for a Surgical Robot

Information

  • Research Project
  • 6740377
  • ApplicationId
    6740377
  • Core Project Number
    R43HL075977
  • Full Project Number
    1R43HL075977-01
  • Serial Number
    75977
  • FOA Number
  • Sub Project Id
  • Project Start Date
    2/15/2004 - 20 years ago
  • Project End Date
    8/31/2005 - 18 years ago
  • Program Officer Name
    BALDWIN, TIM
  • Budget Start Date
    2/15/2004 - 20 years ago
  • Budget End Date
    8/31/2005 - 18 years ago
  • Fiscal Year
    2004
  • Support Year
    1
  • Suffix
  • Award Notice Date
    2/11/2004 - 20 years ago

Steerable-Tip Endoscope for a Surgical Robot

[unreadable] DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): [unreadable] Surgical telerobots improve surgeons' ability to see and manipulate objects in the surgical field, allowing them to accomplish the previously impossible, such as totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery, and accelerating the adoption of difficult procedures such as totally endoscopic radical prostatectomies. Though the endoscopes used with surgical robots provide high-quality images, they have not evolved to take advantage of the shift to a robotic paradigm. Stereo endoscopes are so heavy that they require a special robot arm to hold them, and surgeons cannot freely exchange the endoscope from one port to another as they often do in conventional endoscopy. [unreadable] [unreadable] An endoscope that behaved like a robotic surgical tool, mountable on any robot instrument arm, with an articulated, steerable wrist, would fundamentally change robotic surgery, leading to major benefits for patients and surgeons. Surgeons could see around obstacles, operate over much wider areas inside the body without requiring a separate robot setup, and see the operating field from multiple perspectives. Anticipated benefits include reducing operative times, enabling new procedures, and improving functional outcomes for difficult surgeries like totally endoscopic multi-vessel coronary bypass and radical prostatectomy. The proposed technology would also lead to robot architecture changes that would dramatically improve ease-of-use and accelerate adoption of surgical robots. [unreadable] [unreadable] Phase I will include rapid prototyping of a steerable robotic endoscope that can be mounted on any instrument arm of the da Vinci surgical robot. Prototyping will enable clinical validation in a progressive series of eight dry lab and cadaver lab sessions, resulting in new choreographies for four representative cardiac and general surgery procedures and clear evidence of the benefits of a steerable robotic endoscope instrument. [unreadable] [unreadable]

IC Name
NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE
  • Activity
    R43
  • Administering IC
    HL
  • Application Type
    1
  • Direct Cost Amount
  • Indirect Cost Amount
  • Total Cost
    93345
  • Sub Project Total Cost
  • ARRA Funded
  • CFDA Code
    837
  • Ed Inst. Type
  • Funding ICs
    NHLBI:93345\
  • Funding Mechanism
  • Study Section
    ZRG1
  • Study Section Name
    Special Emphasis Panel
  • Organization Name
    INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.
  • Organization Department
  • Organization DUNS
    938647021
  • Organization City
    SUNNYVALE
  • Organization State
    CA
  • Organization Country
    UNITED STATES
  • Organization Zip Code
    940865206
  • Organization District
    UNITED STATES