TY - GEN
T1 - A Comparison of Manual and Robot Assisted Retinal Vein Cannulation in Chicken Chorioallantoic Membrane
AU - Patel, Niravkumar
AU - Urias, Muller
AU - He, Changyan
AU - Gehlbach, Peter L.
AU - Iordachita, Iulian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is a vision threatening condition occurring in the central or the branch retinal veins. Risk factors include but are not limited to hypercoagulability, thrombus or other cause of low blood flow. Current clinically proven treatment options limit complications of vein occlusion without treating the causative occlusion. In recent years, a more direct approach called Retinal Vein Cannulation (RVC) has been explored both in animal and human eye models. Though RVC has demonstrated potential efficacy, it remains a challenging and risky procedure that demands precise needle manipulation to achieve safely. During RVC, a thin cannula (diameter 70-110 μm) is delicately inserted into a retinal vein. Its intraluminal position is maintained for up to 2 minutes while infusion of a therapeutic drug occurs. Because the tool-tissue interaction forces at the needle tip are well below human tactile perception, a robotic assistant combined with a force sensing microneedle could alleviate the challenges of RVC. In this paper we present a comparative study of manual and robot assisted retinal vein cannulation in chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) using a force sensing microneedle tool. The results indicate that the average puncture force and average force during the infusion period are larger in manual mode than in robot assisted mode. Moreover, retinal vein cannulation was more stable during infusion, in robot assisted mode.
AB - Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is a vision threatening condition occurring in the central or the branch retinal veins. Risk factors include but are not limited to hypercoagulability, thrombus or other cause of low blood flow. Current clinically proven treatment options limit complications of vein occlusion without treating the causative occlusion. In recent years, a more direct approach called Retinal Vein Cannulation (RVC) has been explored both in animal and human eye models. Though RVC has demonstrated potential efficacy, it remains a challenging and risky procedure that demands precise needle manipulation to achieve safely. During RVC, a thin cannula (diameter 70-110 μm) is delicately inserted into a retinal vein. Its intraluminal position is maintained for up to 2 minutes while infusion of a therapeutic drug occurs. Because the tool-tissue interaction forces at the needle tip are well below human tactile perception, a robotic assistant combined with a force sensing microneedle could alleviate the challenges of RVC. In this paper we present a comparative study of manual and robot assisted retinal vein cannulation in chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) using a force sensing microneedle tool. The results indicate that the average puncture force and average force during the infusion period are larger in manual mode than in robot assisted mode. Moreover, retinal vein cannulation was more stable during infusion, in robot assisted mode.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176853
DO - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176853
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 33019134
AN - SCOPUS:85091028826
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 5101
EP - 5105
BT - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2020
Y2 - 20 July 2020 through 24 July 2020
ER -