MRI-conditional robotic platforms have proved to be an effective approach for image guided interventions. In this study, a computer-assisted, pneumatically-actuated robot was designed, built, and tested for MRI-guided prostate cancer focal laser ablation (FLA). The robotic manipulator provides two active planar degrees of freedom (DoFs) by using a customized CoreXY frame, and one passive rotational DoF. A remote insertion mechanism improves the surgical workflow by keeping the patients inside the scanner during needle insertion. The robotic manipulator was tested in a 3T MR scanner to evaluate its MR compliance, and the results demonstrated that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) variation was less than 8%. The in-scanner template positioning accuracy test demonstrated that the manipulator achieves high targeting accuracy with a mean error of 0.46 mm and a standard deviation of 0.25mm. Phantom studies have shown that the needle insertion accuracy of the manipulator is within 2mm (Mean = 1.7mm, StD = 0.2mm).
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