Hiroyuki Aihara MD
A Soft Robotic Sleeve to Enable Safer and Easier Colonoscopy Procedures
Current flexible endoscopes have limited dexterity and sensor feedback, making navigation in colonoscopy a challenging task. These technical limitations make screening procedures poorly tolerated by patients, leading to low rates of compliance with screening guidelines and/or incomplete colonoscopy, that is associated with higher rates of interval proximal colon cancer. Alternative engineering solutions have been proposed […]
A Soft Robotic Sleeve to Enable Safer and Easier Colonoscopy Procedures
Current flexible endoscopes have limited dexterity and sensor feedback, making navigation in colonoscopy a challenging task. These technical limitations make screening procedures poorly tolerated by patients, leading to low rates of compliance with screening guidelines and/or incomplete colonoscopy, that is associated with higher rates of interval proximal colon cancer. Alternative engineering solutions have been proposed […]