VR-based simulators for training in minimally invasive surgery

IEEE Comput Graph Appl. 2007 Mar-Apr;27(2):54-66. doi: 10.1109/mcg.2007.51.

Abstract

Simulation-based training using VR techniques is a promising alternative to traditional training in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Simulators let the trainee touch, feel, and manipulate virtual tissues and organs through the same surgical tool handles used in actual MIS while viewing images of tool-tissue interactions on a monitor as in real laparoscopic procedures.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Computer Graphics*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Computer-Assisted Instruction / instrumentation
  • Computer-Assisted Instruction / methods*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / instrumentation
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / education*
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / instrumentation
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Models, Biological*
  • User-Computer Interface*