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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low power design of wireless endoscopy compression/communication architecture

Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology, 2018
A wireless endoscopy capsule represents an efficient device interesting on the examination of digestive diseases. Many performance criteria’s (silicon area, dissipated power, image quality, computational time, etc.) need to be deeply studied.In this ...
Zitouni Abdelkrim, Almimouni Ashwag, Elhajji Majdi   +2 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wireless capsule endoscopy and Crohn’s disease [PDF]

Gut, 2005
Wireless capsule endoscopy appears to be superior to all current forms of radiological investigation of the small intestine in detecting the mucosal abnormalities of Crohn’s disease When the wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) was introduced,1 fears that the capsule might become impacted caused early clinical protocols to exclude any patients with a hint
openaire   +2 more sources

Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin, Jimin Kim, Inho Kim, Bong Hoon Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inductive-Based Wireless Power Recharging System for an Innovative Endoscopic Capsule

Energies, 2015
Wireless capsule endoscopic devices are adopted for painless diagnosis of cancer and other diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract as an alternative to traditional endoscopy.
Giuseppe Tortora, Francesca Mulana, Gastone Ciuti, Paolo Dario, Arianna Menciassi   +4 more
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Transferable Deep Reinforcement Learning With Edge‐Contour‐Depth Fusion for Autonomous Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Navigation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study presents an anatomical landmark‐guided DRL framework for autonomous wireless capsule endoscopy navigation. Using a lightweight edge‐contour‐depth fusion module, it achieves over 97% coverage across diverse gastric anatomies. To ensure reliability, a two‐stage sim‐to‐real pipeline with an adaptive dynamic programming controller mitigates ...
Haoxuan Wu, Haitao Gao, Qingyang Liu, Sishen Yuan, Haiyang Fang, Mingwu Su, Baijia Liang, Yongzun Yang, Long Bai, Wenzhen Dong, Dihong Xie, Shijian Su, Jiewen Lai, Shing Shin Cheng, Zhen Li, Xiuli Zuo, Hongliang Ren   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intermittent Bowel Obstruction Due to a Retained Wireless Capsule Endoscope in a Patient with a Small Bowel Carcinoid Tumour

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2007
A 43-year-old man with a history of metastatic carcinoid disease is presented. The patient had symptoms of chronic intermittent abdominal pain two years after undergoing a wireless capsule endoscopy procedure.
Jonathan R Strosberg, David Shibata, Larry K Kvols   +2 more
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Evaluation of the Impact of Static Interference on an Empirical Data Based Static Magnetic Localization Setup for Capsule Endoscopy

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2020
In this paper, the impact of interference due to the geomagnetic field on a static magnetic localization setup for capsule endoscopy, which is suitable for a wearable application, was investigated.
Zeising Samuel, Anzai Daisuke, Thalmayer Angelika, Fischer Georg, Kirchner Jens   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source