Laser Osteotomy and Optical
Sensing for Advanced Robotic Joint
Tissue Surgery

Gunaratne, Gorokgodage Don Rajitha

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Authors

Gunaratne, Gorokgodage Don Rajitha

Date

2021

Supervisor

Charlie Ironside

Raymond Sheh

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Science and Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86697

Collection

Curtin Theses

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.