Performance Envelope and Physiological Tremor in Microsurgery
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 32nd Annual Northeast Biomedical Engineering Conference (NEBEC '06), pp. 121 - 122, April, 2006
Abstract
Using an instrumented surgical tool, high-precision recordings of hand tremor were taken during vitreoretinal microsurgery in a rabbit model in vivo. The data obtained using a compact, custom six-degree-of-freedom inertial sensing module were filtered and analyzed to characterize the physiological hand tremor of the surgeon. Tremor during the most delicate part of the procedure was measured at a vector magnitude of 30 ?m rms. Non-tremulous, lower-frequency components of instrument movement were also characterized. The data collected provide an important baseline for design specification and performance evaluation of microsurgical devices, using a more comprehensive data set than has been evaluated previously.
BibTeX
@conference{Ibanez-2006-9435,author = {David Ortega Ibanez and Fernando Perez Baquerin and David Choi and Cameron Riviere},
title = {Performance Envelope and Physiological Tremor in Microsurgery},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 32nd Annual Northeast Biomedical Engineering Conference (NEBEC '06)},
year = {2006},
month = {April},
pages = {121 - 122},
}
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