Virtual reality and robotics in medicine

Author

Burdea, Gbigore C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

11-14 Nov 1996

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

25

Abstract

Virtual reality and robotics are teaming to revolutionize the art of medicine, from student training, to diagnosis, anesthesia, surgery and rehabilitation. This paper surveys several key aspects of medical VR including organ modeling, tissue compliance and cutting, and the Teleos Toolkit. This is followed by a review of medical robotics from the kinematics and safety points of view, including special-purpose manipulators and force feedback masters. Finally, we present applications in the areas of tumor palpation, epidural anesthesia, laparoscopic surgery, as well as open and telesurgery

Keywords

computer based training; digital simulation; manipulator kinematics; safety; surgery; telerobotics; virtual reality; Teleos Toolkit; diagnosis; epidural anesthesia; force feedback masters; kinematics; laparoscopic surgery; medical robotics; open surgery; organ modeling; rehabilitation; special-purpose manipulators; student training; telesurgery; tissue compliance; tumor palpation; virtual reality; Anesthesia; Art; Kinematics; Manipulators; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical robotics; Rehabilitation robotics; Safety; Surgery; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Communication, 1996., 5th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tsukuba

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3253-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.1996.568644

Filename

568644