Feasibility of locating tumours in lung via kinaesthetic feedback

Localizing lung tumours during minimally invasive surgery is difficult, since restricted access precludes manual palpation and pre‐operative imaging cannot map directly to the intra‐operative lung. This study analyses the force‐sensing performance that would allow an instrumented kinaesthetic probe to localize tumours based on stiffness variations of the lung parenchyma.

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