An Approach Using Alternative Tissue to Detect Lung Cancer by Tweezers-type of Electrode in VATS

摘要

Malignant neoplasms (cancers) are accounts for 30% of the total deaths in Japan. And the number of the death due to the lung cancer is the most. Lung cancer is being removed by video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) now. However, the position of the lung cancer is estimated visually in the surgery, so it spends a lot of time and the advance techniques. In this paper, the tweezers-types of electrodes have been proposed in order to improve the accuracy of the lung cancer dtection; decrease the surgery burden; shorten the surgery time. The possibility of the lung cancer detection was confirmed by using our proposed methods.