A remote surgery experiment between Japan-Korea using the minimally invasive surgical system

Author

Arata, Jumpei ; Takahashi, Hiroki ; Pitakwatchara, Phongsaen ; Warisawa, Shin´ichi ; Konishi, Kozo ; Tanoue, Kazuo ; Ieiri, Satoshi ; Shimizu, Shuji ; Nakashima, Naoki ; Okamura, Koji ; Kim, Young Soo ; Kim, Sung Min ; Hahm, Joon-Soo ; Hashizume, Makoto ;

Author_Institution

Yamanashi Univ., Kofu

fYear

2006

fDate

15-19 May 2006

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

262

Abstract

Several robotic surgical systems have been developed for MIS (minimally invasive surgery) including commercialized products such as da Vinci and ZEUS. We have developed a minimally invasive surgical system, which have carried out remote surgery experiments for five times at the writing time. In this paper, a remote surgery experiment, which was conducted between Japan and Korea by using the developed minimally invasive surgical system is described. Research & Development (R & D) Internet testbet, APII (Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure), which consists of an optical submarine cable network KJCN (Korea-Japan Cable Network), was used. In the experiment, a laparoscopic cholecystectomy was successfully carried out on a pig. The network time-delays of control signal and images were 6.5 msec and 435.5 msec respectively. A comparison of remote surgery experiments using ISDN and the Internet was studied

Keywords

Internet; medical computing; medical robotics; telerobotics; 435.5 ms; 6.5 ms; Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure; ISDN; Internet; Korea-Japan Cable Network; Research & Development Internet testbet; laparoscopic cholecystectomy; minimally invasive surgical system; remote surgery experiment; robotic surgical systems; Biomedical optical imaging; Commercialization; IP networks; Laparoscopes; Minimally invasive surgery; Optical fiber networks; Robots; Testing; Underwater cables; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9505-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641193

Filename

1641193