title: Construction of a high-tech operating room for image-guided surgery using VR.
abstract: This project aimed to construct an operating room to implement high dimensional (3D, 4D) medical imaging and medical virtual reality techniques that would enable clinical tests for new surgical procedures. We designed and constructed such an operating room at Dai-san Hospital, the Jikei Univ. School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. The room was equipped with various facilities for image-guided, robot and tele- surgery. In this report, we describe an outline of our "high-tech operating room" and future plans.
authors.affiliation: Institute for High Dimensional Medical Imaging, The Jikei Univ. Sch. of Med., 4-11-1 Izumihoncho, Komae-shi 201-8601, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Asaki
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hattori
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Yoshito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Otake
authors.forename: Mitsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayashibe
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Takehiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nezu
authors.forename: Haruo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Umezawa
mesh_terms: D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009873:Operating Rooms; D012371:Robotics; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted