Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

DOI

10.2147/rsrr.S224446

Publication Title

Robotic Surgery: Research and Reviews

Volume

7

Pages

1-23

Abstract

This paper surveys both the clinical applications and main technical innovations related to steered needles, with an emphasis on neurosurgery. Technical innovations generally center on curvilinear robots that can adopt a complex path that circumvents critical structures and eloquent brain tissue. These advances include several needle-steering approaches, which consist of tip-based, lengthwise, base motion-driven, and tissue-centered steering strategies. This paper also describes foundational mathematical models for steering, where potential fields, nonholonomic bicycle-like models, spring models, and stochastic approaches are cited. In addition, practical path planning systems are also addressed, where we cite uncertainty modeling in path planning, intraoperative soft tissue shift estimation through imaging scans acquired during the procedure, and simulation-based prediction. Neurosurgical scenarios tend to emphasize straight needles so far, and span deep-brain stimulation (DBS), stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), intracerebral drug delivery (IDD), stereotactic brain biopsy (SBB), stereotactic needle aspiration for hematoma, cysts and abscesses, and brachytherapy as well as thermal ablation of brain tumors and seizure-generating regions. We emphasize therapeutic considerations and complications that have been documented in conjunction with these applications.

Comments

© 2020 Audette et al.

Published under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license.

Original Publication Citation

Audette, M. A., Bordas, S. P. A., & Blatt, J. E. (2020). Robotically steered needles: A survey of neurosurgical applications and technical innovations. Robotic Surgery: Research and Reviews, 7, 1-23. doi:10.2147/rsrr.S224446

ORCID

0000-0003-0011-1731 (Audette)

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