Recent surgical technology provides less invasiveness for patients,
but requires surgeon's higher surgical skills and experience than
conventional means. We are developing an endoscopic sinus surgery
training system for surgical skill evaluation. It consists of a realistic
head dummy, force sensor, position sensor and computer. While a trainee
doctor performs surgical procedures inside the dummy, the force vector
is overlaid on an endoscopic image, to alert to excessive collision
between the surgical tools and the dummy. The orientation of the endoscope
is also shown to avoid its unnecessary rolling. The position of the
surgical tools is displayed as a sliced X-ray CT image at the tip
of the tool.
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No.8
Spring 2003
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