Robotic Biopsy System Drives The Point Home

Compact, high-torque DC servomotors precisely control biopsy needle to improve speed, efficiency, and radiation exposure.

It started out with a simple question one day during Dr. Rajiv Gupta’s residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH): Why, with CT scanners routinely achieving submillimeter resolutions, was he still performing manual needle biopsies with only centimeters of accuracy? There had to be a better way. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) agreed and built a robotic biopsy system with unprecendented efficiency and accuracy, powered by compact, high-torque DC servomotors from MICROMO.