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Fabrication of dry dura mater models for medical surgical simulator


Abstract:

The medical doctor's much experiences are very important for the success of surgeries. Therefore, surgeries using experimental animals have been carried out for training ...Show More

Abstract:

The medical doctor's much experiences are very important for the success of surgeries. Therefore, surgeries using experimental animals have been carried out for training experts' skill improvement from long ago. However, human beings are different in size and structure from other animals in some organs, so it is difficult to perform surgical training using living bodies of other animals. In recent years, a medical surgical simulator has been widely attracting attention for promoting the improvement of techniques by training and understanding of surgical contents. It is preferable that models of various organs have the same characteristics as real, but precise models are currently under development. Here, we targeted a human brain whose structure is different from other animals and whose medical operations are important and hard. In particular, we focused on the dura mater that protects the brain. In this study, we attempted to create some non-wet dura mater model for medical simulation of brain surgery operation. Some dura mater models combined resins and fiber sheets were fabricated. Characteristics of the produced models were investigated and responses of the model to the actual surgical tool were measured, and they were compared with pig dura mater. It was shown to be able to prepare dura mater models with properties similar to those of pig dura mater in viscoelasticity and scalpel insertion test.
Date of Conference: 17-19 October 2017
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 22 January 2018
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Conference Location: Beijing, China

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