Suzuki N, Hattori A, Suzuki S, Otake Y, Hayashibe M, Kobayashi S, Nezu T, Sakai H, Umezawa Y. Construction of a high-tech operating room for image-guided surgery using VR. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2005; 111:538-42

PMID: 15718793

Abstract

This project aimed to construct an operating room to implement high dimensional (3D, 4D) medical imaging and medical virtual reality techniques that would enable clinical tests for new surgical procedures. We designed and constructed such an operating room at Dai-san Hospital, the Jikei Univ. School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. The room was equipped with various facilities for image-guided, robot and tele- surgery. In this report, we describe an outline of our "high-tech operating room" and future plans.