...Dale J. Podolsky; Eric Diller; David M. Fisher; Karen W. Wong Riff; Thomas Looi; James M. Drake; Christopher R. Forrest Pin-jointed wrist mechanisms provide compact articulation for surgical robotic applications, but are difficult to miniaturize at scales suitable for small body cavity surgery...

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.... The radiographs of the sheep after surgery and after euthanization are shown in Fig. 7 . The figure on the right shows good callus formation in the distraction gap. Distraction force (compressive) shown for sheep undergoing limb lengthening at a variable distraction rate. The dark line shows the average...

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...Chris Rolfes; Paul Iaizzo 14 06 2011 14 06 2011 cardiology catheters defibrillators drug delivery systems surgery A longstanding controversy in the field of cardiac surgery is whether or not to repair the pericardium on completion of open heart surgery. The device...

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...Samuel B. Kesner; Robert D. Howe 13 06 2011 13 06 2011 biomedical ultrasonics cardiovascular system catheters surgery Cardiac catheters allow clinicians to minimally invasively interact with the beating heart without stopping the heart or opening the chest. However...

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