Kent Yamamoto

Journal Article Journal of Medical Robotics Research · December 1, 2025 Endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEA) have become more prevalent for minimally invasive skull base and sinus surgeries. However, rigid scopes and tools significantly decrease the surgeon’s ability to operate in tight anatomical spaces and avoid critical st ... Full text Cite

Tendon-Actuated Concentric Tube Endonasal Robot (TACTER)

Preprint · April 28, 2025 Link to item Cite

Towards the Development of a Tendon-Actuated Galvanometer for Endoscopic Surgical Laser Scanning

Preprint · June 5, 2024 Link to item Cite

An FBG-based Stiffness Estimation Sensor for In-vivo Diagnostics

Preprint · May 30, 2024 Link to item Cite

Preclinical Evaluation of a Novel Steerable Robotic Neuroendoscope Tool.

Journal Article Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) · April 2024 Background and objectivesTo improve the outcomes of minimally invasive, endoscopic, intracranial procedures, steerable robotic tools have been developed but still require thorough evaluation before use in a clinical setting. This paper compares a ... Full text Open Access Cite

A blinded study using laser induced endogenous fluorescence spectroscopy to differentiate ex vivo spine tumor, healthy muscle, and healthy bone.

Journal Article Sci Rep · January 22, 2024 Ten patients undergoing surgical resection for spinal tumors were selected. Samples of tumor, muscle, and bone were resected, de-identified by the treating surgeon, and then scanned with the TumorID technology ex vivo. This study investigates whether Tumor ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Transfer Learning Toward Accurate Reconstruction of the Surgical Zone

Preprint · January 16, 2024 Link to item Cite

Incident Angle Study for Designing an Endoscopic Tool for Intraoperative Brain Tumor Detection

Preprint · November 7, 2023 Link to item Cite

Brain-Mimicking Phantom for Photoablation and Visualization.

Journal Article Int Symp Med Robot · April 2023 While the use of tissue-mimicking (TM) phantoms has been ubiquitous in surgical robotics, the translation of technology from laboratory experiments to equivalent intraoperative tissue conditions has been a challenge. The increasing use of lasers for surgic ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Towards Steering a High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy Needle With a Robotic Steerable Stylet

Journal Article IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics · February 1, 2023 Steerable needles are desired for many applications within the medical field. One such application is high-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy. In this paper, an adaptive control system is proposed to provide control of the planar bending angle or deflection dis ... Full text Cite

Modeling and Control of a 2-DoF Meso-Scale Continuum Robotic Tool for Pediatric Neurosurgery

Journal Article IEEE Transactions on Robotics · April 2021 Full text Cite