title: [Image guided and robotic treatment--the advance of cybernetics in clinical medicine].
abstract: The introduction of advanced technology in hospitals has changed the treatment practice towards more image guided and minimal invasive procedures. Modern computer and communication technology opens up for robot aided and pre-programmed intervention. Several robotic systems are in clinical use today both in microsurgery and in major cardiac and orthopedic operations. As this trend develops, professions which are new in this context such as physicists, mathematicians and cybernetic engineers will be increasingly important in the treatment of patients.
authors.affiliation: Intervensjonssenteret Rikshospitalet, Oslo.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fosse
authors.forename: O J
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Elle
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Samset
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Johansen
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Røtnes
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Tønnessen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Edwin
mesh_terms: D003491:Cybernetics; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012371:Robotics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013523:Surgical Equipment; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery