title: A preliminary real-time and realistic simulation environment for percutaneous coronary intervention.
abstract: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive surgery procedure that is widely used in the treatment of coronary artery disease. This procedure requires interventional cardiologists to have high proficiency and therefore demands an extensive training period in order to ensure successful surgical outcome. In this paper, a realistic and real-time interactive simulator for training PCI procedure is presented. A set of new approaches for core simulation components is devised and integrated into the simulator. Trainees can interact with the virtual simulation environment with real instruments and essential maneuvers encountered in real PCI procedure. Although presently targeted at PCI, our simulator could be easily extended to mimic the necessities of any vascular interventional radiology procedures by updating vascular anatomy. Preliminary validation of the proposed physical model of instruments is conducted on vascular phantom to demonstrate its performance and effectiveness.
authors: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors: Jianhuang
authors: J
authors: Wu
authors: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors: Haoyu
authors: H
authors: Wang
authors: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors: Peng
authors: P
authors: Zhang
authors: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors: Xin
authors: X
authors: Ma
authors: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors: Qingmao
authors: 0000-0002-2465-0556
authors: Q
authors: Hu
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003199:Computer Systems; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000379:methods*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface