Modular robotic platform for precision neurosurgery with a bio-inspired needle: System overview and first in-vivo deployment

• Riccardo Secoli ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: r.secoli@imperial.ac.uk

  Affiliation The Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4688-2494

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• Eloise Matheson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation The Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Marlene Pinzi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation The Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Stefano Galvan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation The Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Abdulhamit Donder,

  Roles Resources, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation The Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6848-6831

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• Thomas Watts,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation The Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Marco Riva,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Humanitas Research Hospital Rozzano, Rozzano, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4643-6451

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• Davide Danilo Zani,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy

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• Lorenzo Bello,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology-Oncology, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

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• Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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