Papers and News Publications

2009

• Percutaneous Placement of Pedicle Screws in the Lumbar Spine Using a Bone Mounted Miniature Robotic System, First Experiences and Accuracy of Screw Placement
  SPINE Journal, Volume 34, Number 4, 2009, pp 392–398 - Pechlivanis I., Kiriyanthan G., Engelhardt M., Scholz M., Lucke S., Harders A. and Schmieder K.

2008

• Clinical Case Series with Post Operative CT Analysis Spine Surgery with Miniature Robotic Guidance
  E-Poster, 3rd German Spine Conference (DWG), Ulm, Germany, 27-29 November 2008 - Dietl R., Levene J.B. and Dominique D.
• Robotic Assisted Vertebroplasty: Our Experience with a Novel Approach to the Treatment of Vertebral Compression Fractures
  Presentation, World Society for Endoscopic Navigated and Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery (WENMISS) Annual Congress, London, UK, 12-14 January 2008 - Zaulan Y., Alexandrovsky V., Khazin F., Silberstein B., Roffman M. and Bruskin A.

2007

• Clinical Experience with Miniature Robot for Spinal Surgery: 89 Clinical Cases
  E-Poster, 14th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), Paradise Island, 11-14 July 2007 - Hardenbrook M., Knoller N., Barzilay Y., Zilberstein B., Schmieder K., Schönmayr R. and Dietl R.
• First European Experience with Robotic Assisted Pedicle Screw Placement in the Spine for Fusion and Dynamic Stabilization (SpineAssist)
  Presentation, the Spine Arthroplasty Society (SAS)'s 7th Annual Meeting, Symposium on Motion Preservation Technology, Berlin, 1-4 May 2007 - Pfeiffer M., Schorer U., Hassel F. and Bräutigam H.
• Importance of Device Sizing and Positioning in Total Disc Replacement Surgery
  Poster, the Spine Arthroplasty Society (SAS)'s 7th Annual Meeting, Symposium on Motion Preservation Technology, Berlin, 1-4 May 2007 - Hochschuler S.H., Lieberman I.H. and Kayanja M.M.
• Robotic assisted spinal surgery - from concept to clinical practice
  Computer Aided Surgery, Vol. 12, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 105–115 - Shoham M., Lieberman I. H., Benzel E. C., Togawa D., Zehavi E., Zilberstein B., Roffman M., Bruskin A., Fridlander A., Joskowicz L., Brink-Danan S. and Knoller N.
• Innovations in Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
  Poster, The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN)’s Annual Congress, Orlando FL, 11-15 March 2007 - Rodgers J.V., Dubrowski K. and Folsom K.
• Bone-Mounted Miniature Robotic Guidance for Pedicle Screw and Translaminar Facet Screw Placement: Part II - Evaluation of System Accuracy
  Journal of Neurosurgery, Vol. 60, February 2007 - Togawa D., Kayanja M.M., Reinhardt M.K., Shoham M., Balter A., Friedlander A., Knoller N., Benzel E.C., Lieberman I.H.

2006

• Bone-Mounted Miniature Robotic Guidance for Pedicle Screw and Translaminar Facet Screw Placement: Part I - Technical Development and a Test Case Result
  Journal of Neurosurgery, Vol. 59, No. 3, September 2006 - Lieberman I. H., Togawa D., Kayanja M. M., Reinhardt, M. K., Friedlander A., Knoller N. and Benzel E. C.
• Image-Guided System with Miniature Robot for Precise Positioning and Targeting in Keyhole Neurosurgery
  Journal of Computer Aided Surgery, Vol. 11, No. 4, July 2006 - Joskovicz L., Shamir R., Freiman M., Shoham M., Zehavi E., Umansky F. and Shoshan Y.
• Miniature Robotic Guidance for Pedicle Screw Placement in Posterior Spinal Fusion: Early Clinical Experience with the SpineAssist
  The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, No. 2, 2006 - Sukovich W., Brink-Danan S. and Hardenbrook M.
• Use of Miniature Robotic Guidance in Complicated Revision Deformity Cases
  E-Poster, International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), Athens, Greece, July 2006 - Hardenbrook M. and SukovichW.
• Miniature Robotic Guidance for Spine Surgery – Introduction of a Novel System and Analysis of Challenges Encountered During the Clinical Development Phase at two Spine Centres
  The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, No. 2, 2006 - Barzilay Y., Liebergall M., Fridlander A. and Knoller N.
• Accuracy of Bone-Mounted Miniature Robotic Guidance System for Pedicle and Translaminar Facet Screw Placement
  Poster, AAOS Chicago, March 2006 - Togawa D., Kayanja M.M., Lieberman I.H., Benzel E.C., Reinhardt M.K., Knoller N. and Friedlander A.
• Bone Mounted Miniature Robotic System for Spine Surgery
  Poster, BioRob (IEEE) Pisa, Italy, February 2006 - Shoham M., Brink-Danan S., Friedlander A. and Knoller N.
• Robotic Assistance in Spine Surgery: Early Experience from Hadassah Medical Center
  Presentation, Hadassah Spine Unit - Hebrew University Medical Center - Dr. Yair Barzilay and Dr. Joel Finkelstein

2005

• Accuracy of Bone-Mounted Miniature Robotic Guidance System for Pedicle and Translaminar Facet Screw Placement
  Poster, International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) Annual Meeting, New York, 10-14 May, 2005 - Togawa D., Kayanja M.M., Lieberman I.H., Benzel E.C., Reinhardt M.K., Knoller N. and Friedlander A

2004

• Robot-Assisted Distal Locking of Long Bone Intramedullary Nails: Localization, Registration and In-Vitro Experiments
  Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI, 2004 - Yaniv Z. and Joskowicz L.
• Validation of Robotically-Assisted System for Spinal Procedures
  2nd International Conference on Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (CAOS), Chicago, 2004 - Natanzon, A., Vitchevsky, A., Silberman, B., Batkilin, E., Burman, M. and Shoham, M.

2003

• Bone Mounted Miniature Robot for Surgical Procedures: Concept and Clinical Applications
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 19, No. 5, October 2003 - Shoham, M., Burman, M., Zehavi, E., Joskowicz, L., Batkilin, E. and Kunicher Y.
• A Robot-Assisted System for Long Bone Intramedullary Distal Locking
  17th International Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) London, 2003 - Joskowicz, L., Milgrom, C., Shoham, M., Yaniv, Z. and Simkin, A.

2002

• Robot-Guided Long Bone Intramedullary Distal Locking: Concept and Preliminary Results
  International Symposium on Robotics Automation (ISRA2002) Toluca, Mexico, 2002 - Joskowicz, L., Milgrom, C., Shoham, M., Yaniv, Z. and Simkin, A.