Towards a virtual basic laparoscopic skill trainer (VBLaST).
Surgical skill training is a long and tedious process of acquiring fine motor skills. To overcome the drawbacks of the existing toolbox trainer systems, we develop, for the first time, a virtual basic laparoscopic skill trainer (VBLaST) whereby tasks, such as the ones available in the FLS toolbox system, may be performed on the computer.
Maciel
Anderson
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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA. maciea@rpi.edu
Liu
Youquan
Y
Ahn
Woojin
W
Singh
T Paul
TP
Dunnican
Ward
W
De
Suvranu
S
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D014110:Touch; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface