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This chapter presents an overview of the most important innovative approaches in Brachytherapy. Brachytherapy is an advanced cancer treatment technique, where radioactive seeds are delivered directly in the tumor without damaging the proximal healthy tissues. A medical protocol for the robotized brachytherapy procedure is described. Latest achievements in robotic assisted brachytherapy provided by several worldwide research centers are presented. Their critical analysis has shown that the already developed structures are built for specific organs and moreover almost all are targeting the prostate In order to overcome the limitations of current robotic systems for brachytherapy and to make possible an universal technique for cancer treatment on several organs of human body within brachytherapy, a new family of modular parallel robots is presented.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the research grant financed by the UEFISCDI national project code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.2-0414, no. 173/2012 entitled “Robotic assisted brachytherapy, an innovative approach of inoperable cancers—CHANCE” 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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Pisla, D., Plitea, N., Galdau, B., Vaida, C., Gherman, B. (2014). Innovative Approaches Regarding Robots for Brachytherapy. In: Rodić, A., Pisla, D., Bleuler, H. (eds) New Trends in Medical and Service Robots. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05431-5_5
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