Dr.-Ing. Dennis Kundrat

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Head of Individualized Therapy


Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine
Universität zu Lübeck
Moislinger Allee 53-55
23558 Lübeck
Gebäude 19

Email: dennis.kundrat(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 384448 133

 

Research

Research Interests

 

  • Design and Control of Medical Robots & Assistive Devices
  • Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) for Medical Robots
  • Surgical Navigation & AR/VR/XR
  • Smart Surgical Training & Simulation
  • AI-powered Surgical Workflows and Robot Control
  • Translational Research in Medical Robotics

 

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Kundrat heads the department Individualized Therapy at Fraunhofer IMTE. He graduated with a diploma and doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in mechatronics from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, focusing on interdisciplinary research with a dissertation on a novel robotic endoscope for non-contact laser surgery. Between 2013 and 2015, he was a visiting researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology and femto-st, France as part of the EU project uRALP. From 2018 to 2020, Dr Kundrat was a Research Associate with the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, U.K., where he paved the way for the development of novel MR-compatible robotic devices for endovascular interventions. His groundbreaking research has been published in top-ranked journals (e.g., IEEE TBME and Science Robotics) and has received the Best Robotic Design Award in the UK-RAS Surgical Robot Challenge in 2019. In 2020, he joined Hannover Medical School, Germany as a Technology Transfer Manager and Lecturer, where he pioneered Germany’s first lecture on technology and knowledge transfer in a medical curriculum. Prior to his current position, Dr Kundrat was a senior researcher in Medical Robotics in the Robotics and Mechatronics (RAM) Lab at the University of Twente, The Netherlands to work on novel technologies for MR-compatible robotics and surgical training frameworks in preclinical settings.

Publications

D. Kundrat, G. Dagnino, and S. Stramigioli,
The Future of Medical Robotics, in The Technical Principles of Endoscopic Surgery , Broeders, I. and Kalisingh, S. and Perretta, S. and Szold, A., Eds. Springer Media B.V., 2023.
ISBN:9789036829045
M. Pescio, D. Kundrat, M. Casadio, and G. Dagnino,
Model-Based Force Estimation for Robot-Assisted Endovascular Interventions , in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): Workshop on Endoluminal Robotics , 2023.
D. Kundrat, R. Graesslin, A. Schoob, D. T. Friedrich, M. O. Scheithauer, T. K. Hoffmann, T. Ortmaier, L. A. Kahrs, and P. J. Schuler,
Preclinical Performance Evaluation of a Robotic Endoscope for Non-Contact Laser Surgery, Annals of Biomedical Engineering , vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 585-600, 2021.
DOI:10.1007/s10439-020-02577-y
File: s10439-020-02577-y
A. Schoob, D. Kundrat, L. A. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Stereo vision-based tracking of soft tissue motion with application to online ablation control in laser microsurgery, Med Image Anal , vol. 40, pp. 80-95, 2017.
D. Kundrat, A. Schoob, N. Niemeyer, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Herstellung und Evaluierung eines Stimmlippen-Gewebephantoms zur multimodalen Bildgebung und Laserablation, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer and Robot-assisted Surgery (CURAC) , 2017.
A. Schoob, D. Kundrat, S. Lekon, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Color-encoded distance for interactive focus positioning in laser microsurgery, Optics and Lasers in Engineering , vol. 83, pp. 71 - 79, 2016.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2016.03.002
File: S0143816616000671
D. Kundrat, A. Fuchs, A. Schoob, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Endoluminal non-contact soft tissue ablation using fiber-based Er:YAG laser delivery, in Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Photonics West BiOS , 2016.
D. Kundrat, A. Schoob, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
First Study on a Monolithically Manufactured Variable-Length Continuum Robot with Hybrid Actuation, in Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer and Robot-assisted Surgery (CURAC) , 2016.
DP. Coelho, MG. Garcia, A. Schoob, D. Kundrat, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Design, evaluation and augmented reality visualization of a vocal fold tissue phantom for optical coherence tomography, in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer and Robot-assisted Surgery (CURAC) , 2015.
J. Bergmeier, D. Kundrat, A. Schoob, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Methods for a Fusion of Optical Coherence Tomography and Stereo Camera Image Data, in Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Medical Imaging (SPIE Medical Imaging) , 2015.
A. Schoob, S. Lekon, D. Kundrat, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Comparison of tablet-based strategies for incision planning in laser microsurgery, in Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Medical Imaging (SPIE Medical Imaging) , 2015.
A. Schoob, D. Kundrat, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Comparative study on surface reconstruction accuracy of stereo imaging devices for microsurgery, in 29th International Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) , 2015.
D. Kundrat, A. Schoob, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
An Actuated, Flexible Endoscope for Laser Surgery inside the Larynx, in Proceedings of the 4th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS) , 2014.
A. Schoob, S. Lekon, D. Kundrat, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Interactive Focus Positioning in Laser Surgery - A Preliminary Study, in Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer and Robot-assisted Surgery (CURAC) , 2014.
D. Kundrat, A. Schoob, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Rapid Prototyping of Rod-driven Continuum Robots, in Proceedings of the 4th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS) , 2014.
A. Schoob, F. Podszus, D. Kundrat, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Stereoscopic Surface Reconstruction in Minimally Invasive Surgery using Efficient Non-Parametric Image Transforms, in Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS) , 2014.
J. D. Diaz, D. Kundrat, K. F. Goh, O. Majdani, and T. Ortmaier,
Towards intra-operative OCT guidance for automatic head surgery: first experimental results, Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv , vol. 16, no. Pt 3, pp. 347-354, 2013.
A. Schoob, D. Kundrat, LA. Kahrs, and T. Ortmaier,
Real-time Surface Reconstruction and Motion Tracking for Adapting a Preplanned Laser Incision Path in Phonomicrosurgery, in Proceedings of the International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT) , 2013.
D. Kundrat, A. Schoob, B. Munske, and T. Ortmaier,
Towards an Endoscopic Device for Laser-Assisted Phonomicrosurgery, in Proceedings of the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics , 2013.
A Schoob, D. Kundrat, and T. Ortmaier,
Towards Extending a Surgical Laser System with Simple 3D Incision Planning, in Proceedings of the 1st Russian German Conference on Biomedical Engineering , 2013.
A. Fuchs, D. Kundrat, M. Schultz, A. Kr\"uger, and T. Ortmaier,
Automatisierte Überwachung der Laserosteotomie mittels optischer Kohärenztomographie, in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer and Robot-assisted Surgery (CURAC) , 2012.
A. Fuchs, M. Schultz, A. Kr\"uger, D. Kundrat, J. Diaz Diaz, and T. Ortmaier,
Online measurement and evaluation of the Er:YAG laser ablation process using an integrated OCT system, in Proceedings of the 46. DGBMT Annual Meeting , 2012.