Haptic interface development for larynx virtual surgery

• Grant number: 11/17858-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Biomedical Engineering - Medical Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Arlindo Neto Montagnoli
• Grantee: Arlindo Neto Montagnoli
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Domingos Hiroshi Tsuji

Abstract

With the presence of robots in surgery rooms made possible the development of minimally invasive techniques and also allowed the emergence of robotic telesurgery. Dynamic control of these systems must be designed to produce forces and motions of complex jobs such as incisions, dissection, suturing and knots. Due to these techniques, which are already in use by surgeons, such as laparoscopic surgery, head, spine and neck (larynx, thyroid and vocal folds), it became possible to develop equipment for surgical simulation, in which patients are replaced by virtual models. (AU)