Phase I (2004-2005) – Under Human Motion Analysis Project
Funded by National Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC) – 1,000,000 THB (29,500 USD)
Phase II (2006-2009)
Funded by National Metal and Materials Techonology Center (MTEC) – 9,955,000 THB (292,000 USD)
Collaboration with Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
Currently, several orthopedic operations require x-ray exposure during the surgery to allow the surgeons to indicate the position and orientation of the patient’s internal organs and implants. This conventional method has a major disadvantage which is using too excessive amount of x-ray from the fluoroscopic imaging system in both surgeon and patient during the operation. This project is to develop a new surgical guidance system, Fluoro-Navigation (NavFluoro) which requires a minimum number of x-ray exposures, and to develop and implement the Thailand’s first robot-assisted surgical system, Surgical Guiding Robotic system (SGR-Bot). The project involves with specific cases which are ‘Closed Intramedullary Nailing of Femur’ and ‘Total Knee Replacement (TKR).’
References
- Design and Implementation of the MU-TKRobot for Total Knee Replacement Application
- A Novel Conceptual Design on Robotic Bone-Cutting Device Based on Kinematic Analysis: Toward Development of A Novel Robot-Assisted Total Knee Replacement Surgical System
- Kinematics Comparison Tool for Alignment Adjusting in Total Knee Replacement Surgical Planning
- Kinematic Analysis and Algorithm for Computer-Integrated Total Knee Replacement Surgery
- Design and Development of A Surgical Robot for Total Knee Replacement Application