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On the design of an interactive, patient-specific surgical simulator for mitral valve repair

Year: 2011

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Surgical repair of the mitral valve is a difficult procedure that is often avoided in favor of less effective valve replacement because of the associated technical challenges facing non-expert surgeons. In the interest of increasing the rate of valve repair, an accurate, interactive surgical simulator for mitral valve repair was developed. With a haptic interface, users can interact with a mechanical model during simulation to aid in the development of a surgical plan and then virtually implement the procedure to assess its efficacy. Sub-millimeter accuracy was achieved in a validation study, and the system was successfully used by a cardiac surgeon to repair three virtual pathological valves.

Source: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

DOI: 10.1109/iros.2011.6095089

Authors: Neil A. Tenenholtz, Peter E. Hammer, Robert J. Schneider, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Robert D. Howe

Institutions: Harvard University, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Surgical Simulation and Training

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute