Case Study: Nihon University enhances endoscopic surgery with NI PXI and LabVIEW

Enhancing Endoscopic Surgery With an Improved Ultrasonically Activated Scalpel

Researchers at Nihon University faced the challenge of developing a new, ultrasmall-diameter ultrasonically activated scalpel (UAS). They needed a flexible R&D system from National Instruments to measure and control all signals with a wide dynamic range while also gathering the quality data required for Japanese regulatory approval.

By standardizing on the National Instruments platform, including the NI PXI Express controller and NI LabVIEW software, the team created three versions of the same system. This solution resulted in an estimated 80 percent reduction in development time, allowing them to build and present their system within a week, while also reducing the required R&D space to one-third of its original size.

Nihon University

Yoshinobu Murayama

Nihon University