Curing BPH with a Hand-Held Robot

Journal Papers

  1. E. Amanov, D. S. Ropella, N. Nimmagadda, T. E. Ertop, J. E. Mitchell, N. L. Kavoussi, R. J. Hendrick, N. Dillon, E. Blum, S. D. Herrell, III, and R. J. Webster, III, “Transurethral Anastomosis after Transurethral Radical Prostatectomy: A Phantom Study on Intraluminal Suturing With Concentric Tube Robots”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 578-581, 2020. PDF (641.03 KB)
  2. L. Harvey, R. Hendrick, N. Dillon, E. Blum, L. Branscombe, S. Webster, R. J. Webster, III, and T. Anderson, “A Novel Robotic Endoscopic Device Used for Operative Hysteroscopy”, Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1631-1635, 2020. PDF (1.04 MB)
  3. C. R. Mitchell, R. J. Hendrick, R. J. Webster, III, and S. D. Herrell, “Toward Improving Transurethral Prostate Surgery: Development and Initial Experiments with a Prototype Concentric Tube Robotic Platform”, Journal of Endourology, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 692-696, 2016. PDF (262.65 KB) Best Basic Science Paper, Endourology Fellows Competition
  4. R. J. Hendrick, C. R. Mitchell, S. D. Herrell, and R. J. Webster, III, “Hand-Held Transendoscopic Robotic Manipulators: A Transurethral Laser Prostate Surgery Case Study”, International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 34, no. 15, pp. 1559-1572, 2015. PDF (984.79 KB)
  5. S. D. Herrell, R. J. Webster, III, and N. Simaan, “Future Robotic Platforms in Urologic Surgery: Recent Developments”, Current Opinion in Urology, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 118-126, 2014. PDF (763.08 KB)

Conference Papers

  1. T. E. Ertop, J. F. d'Almeida, E. Amanov, J. Shrand, N. Nimmagadda, S. Setia, N. L. Kavoussi, S. D. Herrell III, and R. J. Webster III, “Towards Suturing From Within the Urethra Using Concentric Tube Robots: First Experiences in Biological Tissues”, in International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2022. PDF (1.71 MB)
  2. M. F. Rox, R. J. Hendrick, S. D. Herrell, and R. J. Webster, III, “An Experimental Comparison of Two User Interface Designs for a Hand-Held Surgical Robot”, in Design of Medical Devices Conference, 2017. PDF (398.18 KB)
  3. R. J. Hendrick, C. R. Mitchell, S. D. Herrell, and R. J. Webster, III, “Concentric Tube Robots for Transurethral Prostate Surgery: Matching the Workspace to the Endoscopic Field of View”, in Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2014. PDF (387.16 KB)
  4. R. J. Hendrick, S. D. Herrell, and R. J. Webster, III, “A Multi-Arm Hand-Held Robotic System for Transurethral Laser Prostate Surgery”, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, pp. 2850-2855. PDF (1.52 MB)

Non-Refereed/Invited/Poster/Abstract/Short Papers

  1. C. R. Mitchell, R. J. Hendrick, R. J. Webster, III, and S. D. Herrell, “A Novel Concentric Tube Robotic Platform for Transurethral Prostate Surgery”, Proceedings of 30th EUS Annual Meeting. p. 20, 2015. PDF (284.02 KB)

Book Chapters

  1. R. J. Hendrick, S. D. Herrell, C. R. Mitchell, and R. J. Webster, III, “Experiments on the Simultaneous Hand-Held Control of Rigid Endoscopes and Robots Passing Through Them”, 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics 2014, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 2016, pp. 73-87. PDF (766.14 KB)