Electrical Engineering
      and Computer Sciences

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

UC Berkeley

   

Research Projects

Steering Flexible Needles through Soft Tissues

Ken Goldberg

National Institute of Health (NIH)

This project will develop a new approach to real-time image-guided adaptive needle placement. We will design, prototype, and evaluate a working system that will steer flexible needles from outside the body through deformable tissues to reach specified 3D anatomical targets. Our approach will integrate real-time imaging, adaptive modeling and planning, and image-guided intraoperative needle control.

More information: http://automation.berkeley.edu/projects/needlesteering