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Open Access
01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Augmented reality: 3D image-guided surgery
Authors:
Archie Hughes-Hallett, Philip Pratt, James Dilley, Justin Vale, Ara Darzi, Erik Mayer
Published in:
Cancer Imaging
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Over the last three decades, surgical practice has undergone a significant change with a move towards minimally invasive surgery (MIS) as the standard of care [
1]. Although this has brought with it significant benefits, problems have also been associated with the advent of MIS. Perhaps the most substantial limitation associated with MIS is the loss of haptic feedback; this deficit is at its most extreme in robot-assisted surgery, where at present such feedback is lost entirely [
2]. …