Abstract
Cancer represents one of the main causes of death nowadays, due to a complex set of uncontrollable natural and artificial factors. Huge efforts have been made by the entire scientific community to provide better cancer treatment solutions, all aiming to improve survival and life expectancy. An innovative option in the fight against cancer is brachytherapy (BT), called also internal radiation. BT enables to deliver higher doses of radiation to more-specific areas of the body, compared with the conventional form of radiation therapy that projects radiation from a machine outside the body. The paper presents the structural synthesis of suitable innovative parallel robots used in brachytherapy.
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This paper was supported by the project no. 173/2012, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.2-0414, entitled “Robotic assisted brachytherapy, an innovative approach of inoperable cancers—CHANCE” financed by UEFISCDI and by the Scopes International Grant IZ74Z0_137361/1 entitled “Creative Alliance in Research and Education focused on Medical and Service Robotics CARE-Robotics”.
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Vaida, C. et al. (2014). Structural Analysis and Synthesis of Parallel Robots for Brachytherapy. In: Pisla, D., Bleuler, H., Rodic, A., Vaida, C., Pisla, A. (eds) New Trends in Medical and Service Robots. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01592-7_14
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