Innovative Approaches Regarding Robots for Brachytherapy

This chapter presents an overview of the most important innovative approaches in Brachytherapy. Brachytherapy is an advanced cancer treatment technique, where radioactive seeds are delivered directly in the tumor without damaging the proximal healthy tissues. A medical protocol for the robotized brachytherapy procedure is described. Latest achievements in robotic assisted brachytherapy provided by several worldwide research centers are presented. Their critical analysis has shown that the already developed structures are built for specific organs and moreover almost all are targeting the prostate In order to overcome the limitations of current robotic systems for brachytherapy and to make possible an universal technique for cancer treatment on several organs of human body within brachytherapy, a new family of modular parallel robots is presented.

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