A remote surgery experiment between Japan-Korea using the minimally invasive surgical system

Jumpei Arata, Hiroki Takahashi, Phongsean Pitakwatchara, Shin'ichi Warisawa, Kozo Konishi, Kazuo Tanoue, Satoshi Ieiri, Shuji Shimizu, Naoki Nakashima, Koji Okamura, Young Kim, Sung Kim, Joon Hahm, Makoto Hashizume, Mamoru Mitsuishi

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Abstract

A master slave dexterous manipulator allows dexterity to be increased. Moreover, with capability of remote surgery, it is possible to realize participations of highly capable doctors to a surgery, which takes place in a distant place. And also, it is possible to facilitate a team work medical treatment between doctors from all around the world. We have conducted Japan inland remote surgery experiments between Tokyo and Shizuoka (150km of direct distance) for 4 times at the writing time. ISDN(2B+D) and ISDN(23B+D) have been used in the experiments. Laparoscopic cholecystectomies have been successfully carried out on pigs within 50 msec of control signal time-delay and 400 msec of image time-delay, approximately. The completion time of whole surgical procedure was approximately 90 min, which is roughly equal to a conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy. In this paper, a remote surgery experiment, which was conducted between Japan and Korea is described. Research & Development (R & D) Internet testbet APII (Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure), which consists of an optical submarine cable network KJCN (Korea- Japan Cable Network), was used. In the experiment, a laparoscopic cholecystectomy was successfully carried out on a pig. The network time-delays of control signal and images were 6.5 msec and 435.5 msec respectively. A comparison of remote surgery experiments using ISDN and the Internet was studied.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIFMBE Proceedings
EditorsSun I. Kim, Tae Suk Suh
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages3065-3068
Number of pages4
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9783540368397
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event10th World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, WC 2006 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Aug 27 2006Sept 1 2006

Publication series

NameIFMBE Proceedings
Number1
Volume14
ISSN (Print)1680-0737
ISSN (Electronic)1433-9277

Other

Other10th World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, WC 2006
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period8/27/069/1/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Bioengineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

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