Title :
Methods and tools for reducing the risk of damage the reverse laryngeal nerve during the surgical operation on a thyroid
Author :
Dyvak, Mykola ; Pukas, Andriy ; Komar, Myroslav
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. Inf. Technol., Ternopil Nat. Econ. Univ., Ternopil, Ukraine
Abstract :
The new method and tools for reverse laryngeal nerve identification from the muscle tissue in the operational wound during the operation on thyroid is proposed in this paper. New approach is based on creation the interval model of distance from probing point on a surgical wound to laryngeal nerve.
Keywords :
muscle; neurophysiology; surgery; wounds; damage risk reduction; muscle tissue; probing point; reverse laryngeal nerve identification; surgical thyroid operation; Contamination; Estimation; Mathematical model; Muscles; Surgery; Visualization; Wounds; interval model; laryngeal nerve; safe operation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems (IDAACS), 2011 IEEE 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1426-9
DOI :
10.1109/IDAACS.2011.6072838
