"A novel highly articulated robotic surgical system for epicardial ablation"

Publication information:

Ota T ", Degani A, Schwartzman D and.
"A novel highly articulated robotic surgical system for epicardial ablation". "Annu. Int. Conf. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc.". 2008;2008:"250–253".

Abstract

"We have developed a novel, highly articulated robotic surgical system to enable minimally invasive intrapericardial interventions through a subxiphoid approach and have performed preliminary tests of epicardial left atrial ablation in porcine