Published in:
01-05-2005 | New technology
Seeing is believing
Visualization systems in endoscopic surgery (video, HDTV, stereoscopy, and beyond)
Author:
A. Szold
Published in:
Surgical Endoscopy
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Issue 5/2005
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Excerpt
Endoscopic surgery became an important branch of surgery through processes new to the surgical community. In the learning process of new procedures and their implications, important factors were overlooked or taken for granted, mostly because they seemed intuitively very similar to the way we used to function prior to the minimal access era. However, we are gradually learning that this is not the case. Using long, limited instruments does affect our performance. Furthermore, the way we perceive reality, i.e., the fact that we use video cameras and monitors, affects our perception and performance greatly. …