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http://dx.doi.org/10.7746/jkros.2017.12.4.395

Development of Master-slave System for Robot-assisted Remote Ultrasound Diagnosis  

Seo, Joonho (Medical Device Lab. KIMM)
Cho, Jang Ho (Medical Assistive Robot Lab., KIMM)
Kwon, Ohwon (Medical Device Lab. KIMM)
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The Journal of Korea Robotics Society / v.12, no.4, 2017 , pp. 395-401 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a robot-assisted medical diagnostic system that enables remote ultrasound (US) imaging to be applied to the conventional telemedicine, which has been possible only with interviewing or a visual exam. In particular, a master-slave robot system is developed that ultrasonic diagnosis specialist can control the position and orientation of US probe in the remote place. The slave robot is designed to be compact, lightweight, and hand-held so that it can easily transfer to the remote healthcare center. Moreover, 6-degree-of-freedom (DOF) probe motion is possible by the robot design based on Stewart platform. The master device is also based on a similar structure of the slave robot. To connect master and slave system in the wide area network (WAN) environment, a hardware CODEC was developed. In this paper, we introduce the detail of each component and the results of the recent experiments conducted in the remote sites by the developed robotic ultrasound imaging system.
Keywords
Medical Robot; Ultrasound; Robot-assisted Ultrasound;
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