TY - GEN
T1 - Fundamental tests of pneumatic soft devices for pushing abdomen in stomach X-ray examination
AU - Iwamura, M.
AU - Wakimoto, S.
AU - Suzumori, K.
AU - Oka, Hisao
AU - Shibuya, Koichi
AU - Sumi, K.
PY - 2014/4/20
Y1 - 2014/4/20
N2 - This study aims at development of pneumatic soft devices for stomach X-ray examination. Generally stomach X-ray examination can be divided two procedures roughly. One is observation of condition of back-side stomach wall and the other is that of front-side stomach wall. In this paper, two types of soft devices for each examination have been developed. The devices are configured with pneumatic actuators which are radiolucent and soft, and realize compression of the abdomen. Volunteer tests were conducted using actual X-ray apparatus and these devices. The results indicate the potential of the devices to improve the conventional stomach X-ray examination.
AB - This study aims at development of pneumatic soft devices for stomach X-ray examination. Generally stomach X-ray examination can be divided two procedures roughly. One is observation of condition of back-side stomach wall and the other is that of front-side stomach wall. In this paper, two types of soft devices for each examination have been developed. The devices are configured with pneumatic actuators which are radiolucent and soft, and realize compression of the abdomen. Volunteer tests were conducted using actual X-ray apparatus and these devices. The results indicate the potential of the devices to improve the conventional stomach X-ray examination.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090742
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090742
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84949929113
T3 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
SP - 2649
EP - 2654
BT - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
Y2 - 5 December 2014 through 10 December 2014
ER -