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Figure 3.45 Comprehensive surgical simulator for endovascular
intervention proposed and constructed by this research.

3.12.2 Surgical Simulation

To evaluate the performance of the comprehensive simulator,
interventionalists made endovascular intervention simulation
with it. The vascular model satisfactorily reproduces the elasticity
characteristic and the friction characteristic of human blood vessel.
As a result, operational feeling and the dynamic behavior of medical
equipment is accurately reproducible with this vascular model.
It was conirmed that this characteristic is similarly achieved in
this overall simulator, and the operational feel and the behavior of
medical equipment were reproduced. Figure 3.46 shows the state of
the catheter passing through its abdomen artery.

(a) t= 0:00 min (b) t=0:26 min (c) t=0:39 min

(d) t=0:43 min (e) t=0:48 min (f) t=0:56 min

(g) t=1:58min (h) t=2:11 min (i) t=3:23 min

Figure 3.46 State of the catheter passing through the abdomen artery
reproduced inside the constructed comprehensive surgical
simulator.