Pneumatically actuated deployable tissue distension device for NOTES for colon

• Main Authors: Miyasaka, Muneaki, Liu, Jiajun, Cao, Lin, Phee, Soo Jay
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Robots; Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery; Surgical Robot
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137865
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When performing some surgical tasks inside colon with NOTES technology, colon tissue could block the task space and occlude the endoscopic vision. In order to solve this problem, we developed a pneumatically driven deployable and undeployable structure which can distend collapsing tissue and can be...