Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Medical Robotics

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Published01 January 2008

Doi10.5772/53

ISBN978-3-902613-18-9

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-5820-2

Copyright year2008

Number of pages536

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. The Learning Curve of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery

By E. Olthof, D. Nio and W.A. Bemelman

3,555
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2. The Must-Have in Robotic Heart Surgery: Haptic Feedback

By Eva U. Braun, Hermann Mayer, Alois Knoll, Ruediger Lange and Robert Bauernschmitt

4,342
1
6. Autonomous Virtual Mobile Robot for the Exploration of 3D Medical Images

By Luca Ferrarini, Hans Olofsen, Johan H.C. Reiber and Faiza Admiraal-Behloul

2,742
7. Robotic Foregut Surgery

By Daniel T. McKenna and Jon C. Gould

3,236
8. Robotic Long Bone Fracture Reduction

By A. E. Graham, S. Q. Xie, K. C. Aw, W. L. Xu and S. Mukherjee

3,590
1
10. Motion Tracking for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery

By Martin Groeger, Klaus Arbter and Gerd Hirzinger

4,134
19
11. Surgical Skills Training For Robotic Assisted Surgery

By Juan D. Hernandez R., Fernando Bello and Ara Darzi

3,164
12. Medical Robotics in Cardiac Surgery

By Stephan Jacobs and Volkmar Falk

3,081
1
13. Robotic Neurosurgery

By Karas and Baig

3,946
2
14. The Use of Software Systems for Visualized Treatment Objectives in Orthognatic Surgery

By Zafer Ozgur Pektas, Beyza Hancioglu Kircelli and Ulkem Cilasun

5,804
16. Miniature Robotic Guidance for Spine Surgery

By Y. Barzilay, L. Kaplan and M. Liebergall

3,274
1
17. Nerve Sparing Axillary Dissection Using the da Vinci Surgical System

By Susan M. L. Lim, Cheng-Kiong Kum and Foong-Lian Lam

4,669
18. Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Renal and Adrenal Surgery

By Yves Caumartin, Jeffrey Warren and Patrick P.W. Luke

3,771
20. Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery for Aortoiliac Disease: A Systematic Review

By Jeroen Diks, Denise Nio, Willem Wisselink and Willem Bemelman

2,817
21. Basic Study of Appropriate Knot-Tying Force in the Gastrointestinal Tract for Development of Haptic Surgical Robot

By Junya Oguma, Soji Ozawa, Yasuhide Morikawa, Toshiharu Furukawa, Yuko Kitagawa, Masakazu Ueda, Kouhei Ohnishi and Masaki Kitajima

2,740
22. Robotic Gastrectomy with Lymphadenectomy for Gastric Cancer

By Casandra Anderson, Joshua Ellenhorn and Alessio Pigazzi

4,005
1
23. Robotic Rectal Cancer Surgery

By Minia Hellan, Joshua Ellenhorn and Alessio Pigazzi

4,166
1
24. Efficient Non-Invasive Registration with A-Mode Ultrasound in Skull Surgery

By Aleksandra Popovic, Stefan Heger, Axel Follmann, Ting Wu, Martin Engelhardt, Kirsten Schmieder and Klaus Radermacher

2,873
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25. Camera Holding Robotic Devices in Urology

By Sashi S Kommu and Abhay Rane

4,226
26. Telerobotic Surgery for Right and Sigmoid Colectomy

By Arthur Rawlings and David Crawford

3,853
1
28. Prototypic Force Feedback Instrument for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery

By Ulrich Seibold, Bernhard Kuebler and Gerd Hirzinger

6,131
14
4,396
1
31. Mechanical Error Analysis of Compact Forceps Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgery

By Takashi Suzuki, Yoichi Katayama, Etsuko Kobayashi and Ichiro Sakuma

3,300
1
32. Dental Patient Robot

By Hideaki Takanobu

3,192
1
33. Neuro- and Fascial Anatomy in the Male Pelvis for Robotic Radical Prostatectomy

By Atsushi Takenaka, Ashutosh K. Tewari and Masato Fujisawa

5,006
2
34. Robotic Assistance in Microvascular Surgery

By M.G.W. van den Heuvel and R.R.W.J. van der Hulst

3,105
35. Cooperative Robotic System to Support Surgical Interventions

By Raul A. Castillo Cruces, H. Christian Schneider and Juergen Wahrburg

3,293
1
36. Robotics in General Surgery

By James Wall, Venita Chandra and Thomas Krummel

10,144
8
37. Telemanipulated Long Bone Fracture Reduction

By Ralf Westphal, Simon Winkelbach, Thomas Goesling, Markus Oszwald, Tobias Huefner, Christian Krettek and Friedrich Wahl

3,436
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