—Robotic surgical assistants are enhancing physician performance, enabling physicians to perform more delicate and precise minimally invasive surgery. However, these devices are ...
Robots consisting of several concentric, preshaped, elastic tubes can work dexterously in narrow, constrained, and/or winding spaces, as are commonly found in minimally invasive s...
D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster III, Gregory S....
In this paper we present our initial work on simulating suture and suturing using mass-spring models. Various models for simulating suture were studied, and a simple linear mass-s...
The assessment of surgical skills for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has traditionally been conducted with visual observation and objective scoring. This paper presents a practic...
This paper discusses four ways that humans interact with their environments, plus four variables that determine the experience of virtual reality, and also which of the interactio...