2012

A Framework for Integrating Real-Time MRI With Robot Control: Application to Simulated Transapical Cardiac Interventions


Nikhil V Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Dipan J Shah, Nikolaos V Tsekos


IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2012

Development and initial testing of a prototype concentric tube robot for surgical interventions


Costas Sophocleous, Eftychios G. Christoforou, Panayiotis S. Shiakolas, Ioannis Seimenis, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, and Charalambos C. Doumanidis


IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2012

Image Guided Mechanically Scanned and Co-registered Localized Optical and MR Spectroscopies


Ahmet E. Sonmez, Andrew G. Webb and Nikolaos V. Tsekos


IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2012

Intraoperative Registration of Preoperative 4D Cardiac Anatomy with Real-time MR Images


Xifeng Gao, Nikhil V. Navkar, Dipan J. Shah, Nikolaos V. Tsekos and Zhigang Deng


IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2012

ROBOCATH: a patient-mounted parallel robot to position and orient surgical catheters


Amirhossein Salimi, Amin Ramezanifar, Javad Mohammadpour, K. Grigoriadis, N. V. Tsekos


ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), 2012

A system for endoscopic mechanically scanned localized proton MR and light-induced fluorescence emission spectroscopies


Ahmet E. Sonmez, Andrew G. Webb, William M. Spees, Alpay Ozcan, Nikolaos V. Tsekos


Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2012

An Actuated Phantom for Developing and Studying MRI-Guided Interventions in Dynamic Environments


Nicholas C. von Sternberg, Yousef S. Hedayati, Habib M. Zaid, Erol Yeniaras, Eftychios Christoforou, and Nikolaos V. Tsekos


4th IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012

Development and Initial Testing of a General–Purpose, MR–Compatible, Manually–Actuated Manipulator for Image–Guided Interventions


Eftychios G. Christoforou, Ioannis Seimenis, Eleni Andreou, Nikolaos V. Tsekos


4th IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012

Robot-assisted Mechanical Scanning and Co-registration of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Light-Induced Fluorescence


Ahmet E. Sonmez, William M. Spees, Alpay Özcan, Zhigang Deng, Andrew G. Webb and Nikolaos V. Tsekos


4th IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012

Visual and Force-Feedback Guidance for Robot-Assisted Interventions in the Beating Heart with Real-Time MRI


Nikhil V. Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Dipan J. Shah, Kostas E. Bekris, Nikolaos V. Tsekos


IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

Left endocardium tracking via collaborative trackers and shape prior


Yan Zhou, Shaoting Zhang, Nikolaos Tsekos Ioannis Pavlidis Dimitris Metaxas


9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2012

An Approach for Preoperative Planning and Performance of MR-guided Interventions Demonstrated With a Manual Manipulator in a 1.5T MRI Scanner


Ioannis Seimenis, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, Christoforos Keroglou, Eleni Eracleous, Constantinos Pitris & Eftychios G. Christoforou


CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology, 2012

Devices, systems and methods for multimodal biosensing and imaging


Nicolaos V. Tsekos, Ahmet E. Sonmez


United States Patent and Trademark Office