The KUKA company, since the development of its Medical Robotics department, has focused on presenting products that benefit professionals in the medical sector and their patients, working in collaboration with medical manufacturers.
The intelligent automation solutions that KUKA provides guarantee quality and innovation. with robotic systems precisely customized to meet the current requirements of the medical industry.
KUKA’s Innovative Robotics in Healthcare
KUKA’s medical robotics team is dedicated to solving current medical challenges. They strive to make continuous improvements for patient care, diagnosis and treatment. KUKA, among its other achievements, has also managed to provide solutions to departments such as imaging, surgery and rehabilitation.
Today, the treatment center in Munich uses medical products with integrated KUKA robots as high-precision instruments for treating tumors.
The CyberKnife System
The system called CyberKnife treats tumors in different parts of the body, from the brain to the spine and various organs, such as the lungs, liver, kidneys or prostate.
The Accuray CyberKnife system replaces the scalpel and the KUKA KR QUANTEC robotic arm guides it around the patient. The precise movement of the KR QUANTEC focuses the radiation dose directly on the tumor. Thanks to high-precision robots and image-guided radiation, the CyberKnife Center in Munich can treat tumors anywhere in the human body.
The image data is first generated by a computer and an MRI, and then uploaded. After this, a doctor recommends to the medical physicist the dose to be used to irradiate the tumor.
With this information, the medical physicist creates a treatment plan and transfers it to the software. Then the treatment starts and runs automatically. This is where the KUKA robot from Accuray, a manufacturer of medical products, plays a vital role in the CyberKnife system.
Advantages of CyberKnife System
Accuracy in irradiation is the biggest advantage of the robot in the CyberKnife system. Its high precision allows it to safely irradiate even benign brain tumors, regardless of their size.
Professor Dr. Alexander Muacevic, Radiosurgeon and Neurosurgeon at the CyberKnife Center in Munich, said: “With this system we perform radiosurgery, that is, a treatment that applies radiation with the utmost precision. Thanks to the integration of an image guidance system with robotic technology, we achieved an accuracy of less than one millimeter. We can treat small and medium tumors very well with our virtual knife, thus obviating the need for an operation. The patient can now go back to work the next day. “
CyberKnife vs Traditional Surgery
Discusing how the CyberKnife procedure compares to a traditional surgery, Dr. Muacevic said, “As an alternative to a total operation, we can dramatically reduce the treatment time from eight weeks to a single week, and it is scientifically documented that the results are at least comparable, if not better.”
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