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Seminar at the Modular Surgical Robotics PhD Course, Politecnico di Milano

Jul. 15, 2013—July 2, 2013. Pietro Valdastri presented “Magnetic capsule robots for gastrointestinal endoscopy and abdominal surgery” at the PhD Course on Modular Surgical Robotics organized by the NEAR Lab in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

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Wireless Tissue Palpation presented at TRANSDUCERS 2013

Jul. 15, 2013—June 19, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Wireless Tissue Palpation to Guide Tumor Resection in Minimally Invasive Surgery” at the Medical Microsystems session at TRANSDUCERS 2013 conference in Barcelona, Spain.

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STORM Lab at DDW 2013

May. 30, 2013—May 17, 2013. The STORM Lab presented three posters and one lecture at Digestive Disease Week 2013 in Orlando, FL. The STORM Lab team at DDW was composed by Marco, Ines, Keith and Pietro. Here Pietro explaning Christian’s magnetic localization poster.

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Top 10 Abstract at the Engineering and Urology Society 2013 Meeting

May. 30, 2013—May 3, 2013. The abstract “Fine tilt tuning of a laparoscopic camera by local magnetic actuation: Two-Port Laparoscopic Nephrectomy Experience on Human Cadavers” by R. Pickens, M. Simi, A. Menciassi, S. D. Herrell, P. Valdastri has been nominated in the Top 10 Abstract at the Engineering and Urology Society 2013 Meeting, in Sand Diego, CA.

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Wireless Tissue Palpation presented at IEEE ICRA 2013

May. 30, 2013—May 7, 2013. The paper “Wireless Tissue Palpation: Proof of Concept for a Single Degree of Freedom” by M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, M. E. Rentschler, P. Valdastri, was presented by P. Valdastri at IEEE ICRA 2013 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Partnership with Given Imaging Ltd

Apr. 12, 2013—STORM Lab is glad to announce a new partnership with Given Imaging Ltd, worldwide leader in wireless capsule endoscopy, for the study of enabling technologies for the next generation of gastrointestinal capsule endoscopes.

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STORM Lab Poster at DMD 2013

Apr. 12, 2013—April 10, 2013. The poster “Proof of Concept of Wireless Tissue Palpation in Abdominal Surgery” by Marco Beccani, Christian Di Natali, Mark Rentschler, Pietro Valdastri was presented at the ASME Design of Medical Devices 2013 conference in Minneapolis, MN.

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Invited talk at DMD 2013

Apr. 12, 2013—April 10, 2013. Pietro Valdastri was invited to give the talk “Intraoperative Wireless Tissue Palpation” during the Surgical Robotics session at ASME Design of Medical Devices 2013 conference in Minneapolis, MN.

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STORM Lab at the First Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Education

Apr. 12, 2013—April 8, 2013. The poster “Miniaturized Wireless Mechatronic Systems – A Graduate Class on Medical CPS” was presented at the First Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Education in Philadelphia, PA, during CPSWeek 2013.

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STORM capsule robots featured by the Vanderbilt Hustler

Apr. 12, 2013—The Vanderbilt Hustler interviewed Pietro Valdastri about STORM Lab activities on swallowable robots. Read the article.

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STORM Lab at the Sixth Image-Guided Therapy workshop

Mar. 22, 2013—March 21-23, 2013. The poster “Proof of Concept of Wireless Tissue Palpation in Abdominal Surgery” by M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, M. Rentschler, P. Valdastri was presented at the Sixth Image-Guided Therapy workshop organized in Washington DC by NCIGT, NIH, CNMO.

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The other side of collaborative research

Mar. 22, 2013—Since the Wireless Tissue Palpation trial was a success, the STORM Lab group that traveled to Colorado for the experiment enjoyed one full day of skiing at Copper Mountain, CO. Levin Sliker, graduate student in Dr. Rentschler Lab (University of Colorado – Boulder), guided us on the slopes. An awesome day!

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First in vivo trial for Wireless Tissue Palpation

Mar. 22, 2013—On March 12, 2013 we completed the first in vivo trial on Wireless Tissue Palpation. The trial was performed at University of Colorado – Anschutz in collaboration with Mark Rentschler, PhD (University of Colorado – Boulder) and Jonathan Schoen, MD (University of Colorado – Anschutz). Wireless Tissue Palpation was effective in creating in real-time a...

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STORM Lab at DDW 2013

Feb. 19, 2013—STORM Lab gets four abstract accepted to Digestive Disease Week 2013. Three posters and one oral presentation. Congratulations and see you in Orlando!!!!

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New Lab Member

Feb. 19, 2013—STORM Lab welcomes Robert Caprara as new graduate student member. Welcome Robert!

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