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Percutaneous medical procedures, guided imagery or not, benefited from the contributions of localization tools and navigation. However, these tools remain imperfect. In the context of percutaneous procedures using a needle, we demonstrate that we can provide the physician augmented interventional environment that will allow one hand, to answer to its problem of maximizing the benefit / risk ratio and other hand, to push its limits in making gestures that are not currently considered because of under-performing tools. Two major challenges must be addressed in designing the new generation of tools to support interventional radiological procedures. 1 / as the simplifying assumption of a linear model of needle can be a major source of imprecision, with a consequence of failures of interventional gesture, the new navigation systems must take into account real-time deformation of needle. 2 / the knowledge of these deformations and thus deviations from an ideal planed trajectory requires the development of new real-time correcting methods of trajectory of the needle. A consortium of experts was formed to address these challenges: TIMA (Techniques de l’Informatique et de la Micro-électronique pour l’Architecture des systèmes intégrés), which brings its expertise in micro-fabrication and micro-sensors, demonstrated the feasibility of a new way of understanding the deformations of a needle. 3S-R (Sols, Solides, Structures, Risques) brings to the consortium its expertise in the field of physical and mechanical behavior of materials for the optimum design and modeling applications. TIMC-IMAG (Techniques de l’Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité - Informatique, Mathématiques et Applications de Grenoble), which is specialized in navigation systems and Computer Assisted Medical Interventions, offers a new augmented navigated environment. The CIC-IT (Clinical Investigation Center - Technological Innovation) of Grenoble University Hospital brings its expertise in the field of innovative technology in Health to early and objectively estimate the Expected Medical Services associated with innovations developed in the project. Imactis, a startup in the field of interventional radiology, provides expertise in the industrialization of needle navigation systems. The federation of these experts in a single consortium can cover all specialties (medical, software, modeling, electronics, micro-system, control, mechanical, medico-legal) needed to meet the two previous challenges. At the end of this industrial research project, all technical and scientific evidence, as well as first demonstrators will be available to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. The stakes are perceived as highly strategic, especially in the field of interventional radiology. We believe that at least six major publications will be made by the consortium. Finally, the industrial transfer of these innovations will be facilitated by the partner Imactis, which will market the products of this work through its distribution network.
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