Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9505-0
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641193
