Development of a miniature imaging head combing wide-angle camera and optical coherence tomography for the semiautonomous laparoscope surgery procedure

Serving as minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery has become a promising treatment approach toward various diseases, such as Urology, Gastroenterology, or Gynecology. Although robotic surgery exhibits several advantages of decreasing the incision size and shorter patient stay, it still imposes extensive labor loading to the surgeons. Therefore, recently, semiautonomous laparoscope surgery has been emerged to improve the surgery precision further. In this study, we have developed a miniature imaging head combing wide-angle camera and optical coherence tomography aiming for semiautonomous laparoscope surgery. Leveraging the ranging information provided from OCT, it allows more agile control of the imaging head.