Academic Figure: Exports of Surgical Robot Iran’s Important Achievement in Health Sector
“The Cancer Diagnostic Probe (CDP) device was invented by Iranian scientists for the first time in the world, which is an advantage and has been exported to Indonesia. The export of the surgical robot is considered a highly important achievement for the country in the health sector,” Qena’ati told ANA.
He added that many countries, including Iraq, Lebanon, etc., have requested to purchase several Iran-made medical devices.
“Domestically-made nanotechnology devices are also exported to Germany, South Korea, China, etc., which shows that we have a word to say in the field of science and research,” Qena’ati said.
Iran is now mass-producing and supplying medical centers with a home-made Cancer Diagnostic Probe (CDP) device for detection of surgical margins of cancerous tumors which enjoys 95% accuracy.
"CDP is the first completely Iranian cancer surgery device in the world, and so far 20 devices have been delivered to medical centers or are being delivered," said Mohammad Abdol Ahad, a faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the University of Tehran and the head of the Electronic Cancer Research Center of University of Tehran, last year.
Noting that the CDP is capable of identification of infected margins and involved lymph nodes during surgery with the help of electrical nanostructure sensor, he said that the CDP is the first completely Iran-made cancer surgery device in the world.
“It took 8 years since the formation and proof of the initial scientific idea based on the electrical measurement of cell metabolism to the final clinical product,” Abdol Ahad said.
He underlined that the Iran-made CDP system has several US-granted patents and more than 11 articles in prestigious international journals in various fields from bioelectronics to surgery with impact factors of above 10.
The Iran-made CDP device displays the results to the surgeon during surgery in real time.
Also, Iranian experts in June 2021 conducted the first remote surgery on a dog by using the fully home-made robot, named Sina, making Iran the second country in the world after the US with the capability to develop surgical robots.
The robot has a surgical console that the surgeon can control and guide the surgery remotely by standing behind it and using two robotic arms.
Also a monitor has been placed next to the console that shows the image of surgery for surgeon clearly. The surgeon uses this system to control the surgery with a pedal and two robotic arms.
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