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Otitis media with effusion (OME) is a common ear disease affecting children and adults all over the world. After medication as the first treatment fails, the tympanostomy tube insertion is the frequently performed otologic surgical procedure to treat OME. During the surgery, an incision is made on the tympanic membrane first and followed by the tube insertion through the incision on the eardrum. To...
Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) is a prevalent condition affecting people of all age groups worldwide. When medication fails, a surgical procedure called "myringotomy" is done and a ventilation tube (grommet) is inserted. A novel "all-in-one" device that allows office-based myringotomy was conceptualized and realized, but there exists constraints with respect to contact sensing...
Otitis media with effusion (OME), a worldwide common ear disease, affecting adults and children when the middle ear is infected. Grommet insertion treatment leads to the development and design of a medical device allowing fast and automatic grommet insertion in an earlier work. In the medical device design, a precision motion system is used to provide the accurate movements for the precise grommet...
In this paper, an automatic office-based ear surgical device for the treatment of Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) which overcomes the disadvantages of the conventional surgical treatment is introduced. Since the device carries out the surgery automatically under the guidance of force sensing information, this information must be reliable so that the safety of the device can be ensured. Hence, a force...
Round window, a channel connecting the middle and inner ears, plays an important role in hearing process of human beings. Usually, localized medical treatment to the round window requires surgical treatment to be carried out by professional surgeons. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to explore the potential of robotic-based round window local therapy, leveraging on the technique of stereo...
This paper presents the design, development and application results of a feedback mechanism for general patientinstrument stabilization, though illustrated more specifically for an office-based ear surgical procedure in the paper. It serves a twofold objective. First, it characterizes the head movement patterns in different positions with respect to space and time which serves as the specifications...
Round window, the boundary between the middle and inner ear, plays a well-established role in cochlear physiology. It is usually inaccessible to localized medical treatment. In this paper, a novel approach is presented to explore local therapy of round window, leveraging on an intelligent vision component for visualizing and locating the round window, and a servo controlled working channel to administer...
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