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The following topics are dealt with: robotic image based neurosurgery; robotic knee surgery; haptics for surgical training; robotic radiosurgery; medical imaging; navigation; and minimal invasive cardiac surgery.
In radiosurgery, a precisely guided beam of radiation is used to irradiate a selected target volume. Since the development of this technique by Lars Leksell, radiosurgery has required the application of a stereotactic frame in order to guide the beams, thus limiting the use of this technique to treatment of intracranial lesions. Only recently the introduction of robotic radiosurgery delivering beams...
A collection of slides from the authorpsilas seminar presentation is given: endoscopic surgery (minimal access surgery) is the execution of established and new surgical procedures using a remote manipulation within the close confines of body cavities or lumen of hollow organs under visual control via telescopes, cameras and television screens.
A collection of slides from the authorpsilas seminar presentation is given: Haptics pertains to the sense of touch. Of the five senses endowed to human beings, the sense of touch is unique in that it provides bidirectional energy and information flow between humans and their environment. However, most current virtual environments (VE) and human computer interface (HCI) systems have primary focused...
Medical imaging, navigation, and robotics are technical solutions which can be used to solve clinical problems. They can be used for personalizing the treatment, for accurate targeting, for increasing therapeutic effectiveness, and for decreasing procedure time. A main driver for the increased usage of these technologies is the trend to minimally invasive procedures. In the last two decades, there...
After a brief introduction to medical robotics, the concept of an "Active Constraint" System used in a medical robot called Acrobotreg is described. The technical details of the complete system are then outlined, including the pre-operative planner which incorporates 3D CT models together with CAD models of prostheses that can be used to plan the leg alignment, position the prostheses, plan...
Cardiac surgery has offered to millions of patients over the last 3 decades several surgical procedures which have been associated to an improved survival and symptoms-free quality of life compared to any other type of available clinical treatment. In the last decade we have witnessed the clinical introduction of technically simpler percutaneous interventions which have been rising exponentially due...
Modern medical scanners allow neurosurgeons to plan operations with millimetre precision. But this planning accuracy needs to be reproduced on the real patient. Image guided surgical robots achieve this by using the scan as a 3D map to locate targets precisely. Success depends on good registration between the patient, the image and the robot.
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