TY - GEN
T1 - Plug-and-play tool handles for laparoscopic surgery simulators
AU - Banihani, Suleiman
AU - Dutkin, Max
AU - Ali, Syed
AU - Arikatla, Venkata Sreekanth
AU - Sankaranarayanan, Ganesh
AU - De, Suvranu
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - With ever growing attention of medical community on the usage of surgical simulators as effective training means, development of robust and costeffective haptic tool interfaces is very much necessary. We have developed such tool interfaces that can be easily plugged to PHANTOM® Omni™ Besides simulating actual tools in operating room, they are cost-effective and are easy to build.
AB - With ever growing attention of medical community on the usage of surgical simulators as effective training means, development of robust and costeffective haptic tool interfaces is very much necessary. We have developed such tool interfaces that can be easily plugged to PHANTOM® Omni™ Besides simulating actual tools in operating room, they are cost-effective and are easy to build.
KW - Minimally invasive surgery
KW - Surgical simulators
KW - Tool interface
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-58603-964-6-28
DO - 10.3233/978-1-58603-964-6-28
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 19377106
AN - SCOPUS:67549151195
SN - 9781586039646
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 28
EP - 30
BT - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17 - NextMed
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 17th Annual MMVR Conference - NextMed: Design for/the Well Being, MMVR17 2009
Y2 - 19 January 2009 through 22 January 2009
ER -