Concept of Multimedia Tele-medicine and Fundamental Experiment for Catheter Teleoperation

摘要

It is important to assist doctors operating the intravascular surgical tools such as a catheter that is designed for minimum invasive surgery inside complex and narrow brain blood vessels. To solve this problem, we propose a multimedia tele-medicine for diagnosis, training, and assistance in surgery. We built a prototype of a virtual simulator system for the intravascular neurosurgery that consists of a 3D-Computer Graphics simulator and a joystick. The joystick is used for the controller and force display of catheter head direction.