Laser Osteotomy and Optical Sensing for Advanced Robotic Joint Tissue Surgery
Access Status
Open access
Date
2021Supervisor
Charlie Ironside
Raymond Sheh
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
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Science and Engineering
School
School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Collection
Abstract
As part of an industry supported project on robotics for orthopaedic surgery, we investigated new tools for robotic orthopaedics including, lasers for bone cutting, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and autofluorescence spectroscopy (AFS) of animal and human joint tissue. The DRS and AFS work had the aim of creating a sensing system which could be used in laser surgery to differentiate joint tissue.