title: Data acquisition and development of a trocar insertion simulator using synthetic tissue models.
abstract: Realistic trocar insertion simulator requires reliable and reproducible tissue data. This paper looks at using synthetic surrogate tissue to facilitate creation of data covering a wide range of pathological cases. Furthermore, we propose to map the synthetic puncture force data to the puncture force data obtained on animal/human tissue to create a simulation model of the procedure. We have developed an experimental setup to collect data from surrogate synthetic tissue using a bladeless trocar.
authors: Virtual Reality Lab, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. arulesan@eng.buffalo.edu
authors: Veluppillai
authors: V
authors: Arulesan
authors: Govindarajan
authors: G
authors: Srimathveeravalli
authors: Thenkurussi
authors: T
authors: Kesavadas
authors: Prashant
authors: P
authors: Nagathan
authors: Robert E
authors: RE
authors: Baier
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000601:surgery*; D003625:Data Collection; D020407:Internet; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D014481:United States