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Design and evaluation of safety operation VR training system for robotic catheter surgery

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A number of remote robotic catheter systems have been developed to protect physicians from X-ray exposure in endovascular surgery. However, the teleoperation prevents the physicians sensing the force directly which may easily result in healthy vessels injured. To realize the safe operation, a tissue protection-based VR training system has been developed in this paper to prevent collateral damage by collision. The integrated VR simulator cannot only remind the novice possible collisions by visual signs, but also cooperate with the newly designed tissue protection mechanism to remit collision trauma beforehand. Such mechanism exploits the diameter variable pulley in order to implement the safe interaction between catheter and vasculature. To testify the effectiveness of the tissue protection in training system, we invited four non-medical students to participate the successive 5 days training session. The evaluation results show that the average impingement distance (representing tissue damage) to vascular wall has been reduced to 0.6 mm, and the collision frequency is greatly decreased which implies the realization of relative safe catheterization.

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  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

    Yu Wang & Yaxin Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Convergence Medical Engineering System and Healthcare Technology, The Ministry of Industry and Information, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian District, Beijing, China

    Shuxiang Guo

  3. Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Engineering Department, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

    Shuxiang Guo

  4. Department of Neurological Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan

    Takashi Tamiya

  5. Graduate School of Engineering, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

    Yu Song

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Wang, Y., Guo, S., Li, Y. et al. Design and evaluation of safety operation VR training system for robotic catheter surgery. Med Biol Eng Comput 56, 25–35 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-017-1666-2

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