Data acquisition and development of a trocar insertion simulator using synthetic tissue models
Arulesan, V.; Srimathveeravalli, G.; Kesavadas, T.; Nagathan, P.; Baier, R.E.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 125: 25-27
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 17377226 Document Number: 614256
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.