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Collaboration type Licence agreement Research cooperationFebruary 1st, 2018
Nowadays a trend in surgery is to operate in a minimally invasive way inside the patient in order to re- duce trauma and potential complications. In this field, the manipulation of any medical tool is subject to parasitic forces, such as friction or forces induced by the change of curvature, implying the force felt by the scientist is not the force exerted by the tool inside the patient body. Therefore, there is a need of a force measurement and force feedback system. This can be applied in diagnostic and in therapeutic ap- plications. The present invention is relative to a force transducer comprising strain sensing optical fibres able to mesure the interaction force between the surgical tool and the tissue and to a force feedback system that can recreated the interaction force between the tools and the tissue.
