Simulator for Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventions: Hardware and Software

Minimally Invasive Interventions for Nontraumatic Splenic Disorders

I mage-guided, minimally invasive arterial interventions are increasingly performed in the treatment of nontraumatic splenic disorders as an alternative to surgery. This article reviews various nontraumatic clinical applications for splenic arterial interventions, including hypersplenism, sinistral portal hypertension, nontraumatic splenic hemorrhage, and vascular anomalies. Technical and anato...

Simulator development in vascular and visceral interventions

A Preoperative Planning Procedure for Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Interventions

A successful robotically assisted minimally invasive intervention necessitates preoperative planning which is done by the surgeon to prepare the intervention and to decide about the best access to the surgical site. In the context of robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery, this requires to optimally place ports and robots such that important conditions and requirements like sufficient ...

Novel Delivery System for Minimally Invasive MR Guided Neurological Interventions

Introduction The delivery of electrodes or other therapeutic agents to the brain frequently requires precision minimally invasive access. MR is ideally suited to this application and high targeting accuracies have been reported when delivering deep brain stimulator (DBS) electrodes (1). Convection enhanced delivery (CED) is a promising technique for delivering drug and gene therapies to the bra...

Intraoperative Augmented Reality for Minimally Invasive Liver Interventions

Minimally invasive liver interventions demand a lot of experience due to the limited access to the field of operation. In particular, the correct placement of the trocar and the navigation within the patient’s body are hampered. In this work, we present an intraoperative augmented reality system (IARS) that directly projects preoperatively planned information and structures extracted from CT da...