Abstract: Flexible needles with enhanced steerability are desired in minimally invasive surgeries to reach target locations precisely and to bypass critical organs lying in the planned path. We have proposed a flexurebased active ...

Abstract: Needle insertion is used in many diagnostic and therapeutic percutaneous medical procedures such as brachytherapy, thermal ablations, and breast biopsy. Insufficient accuracy using conventional surgical cannulas motivated ...

Abstract: Abstract. This study aids in the development of a heterogeneous lung model for automobile crashes and blunt trauma. Existing finite element models of the lung tissue are modeled as homogeneous and consider only the parenchyma ...