Feasibility of infrared tracking of beating heart motion for robotic assisted beating heart surgery.

Saeed Mansouri Farzam FarahmandGholamreza VossoughiAlireza Alizadeh GhavidelMostafa Rezayat

Published in: The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS (2017)

With the current technology, infrared tracking with passive markers might be the optimal solution for accurate, fast, and reliable tracking of heart motion during robot assisted beating heart surgery.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
robot assisted
heart failure
atrial fibrillation
coronary artery bypass
high resolution
high speed
acute coronary syndrome