Bioengineering for surgery the critical engineer-surgeon interface /

"Bioengineering is the application of engineering principles to address challenges in the fields of biology and medicine encompassing the principles of engineering design to the full spectrum of living systems. In surgery, recent advances in minimal invasive surgery and robotics are the culmina...

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Other Authors: Farhat, Walid A.,, Drake, James M.,, ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Woodhead Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier, [2016]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Series: Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine ; no. 84.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Interface between engineering and medicine
  • Clinical translation and commercialization
  • Image fusion and visualization
  • Image-guided procedures: tools, techniques, and clinical applications
  • Surgical robotic tools
  • Simulation in minimal access surgery
  • A simulation hospital as a model of immersive-based learning: the concept and challenges
  • Virtual simulation: abdomen
  • Application of 3D printing in medical simulation and education
  • Simulation surgical models: surgeon perspectives
  • Bioengineering and regenerative medicine in surgery
  • Concluding remarks.