Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE ASME Trans Mechatron. 2016 Sep 22;22(1):465–475. doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2016.2612833

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

DCM integrated with a robotic arm for an example application to skull base surgery [4]: (a) DCM attached to a robotic arm; (b) DCM path to the petrous apex through the tympanic bone for skull base surgery; (c) the straight and bent DCM with large lumen. Also shown is the location of compliant joints; (d) lesion (red color) removal using a 2D phantom of a cross section of petrous apex, where DCM is interacting with the boundary of phantom.