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a) b)

c) d)

Figure 3.47 (a) The simulator EVE is evaluated by two interventionalists:
Dr. Makoto Negoro and Dr. Ikuo Takahashi. (b) Appearance of
the presented surgical simulator exhibited in the international
exposition 2005 Ai-Chikyu-Haku, Televised by NHK “Yu-Gata
Chance.” (c) Appearance of the presented surgical simulator
exhibited at the International Robot Exhibition 2005. (d)
Appearance of the presented surgical simulator exhibited at
the 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Neuro-
Endovascular Therapy.

3.12.3 Evaluation of Surgical Simulator

3.12.3.1 Evaluation by interventionalists
To obtain the evaluation about the reproducibility and the utility
of this simulator, we exhibited it at the 21st Annual Meeting of the
Japanese Society for Neuro-Endovascular Therapy for three days in
November 2005. At this medical congress, the surgical simulator
was evaluated by more than 100 interventionalists. The evaluation
was made as follows:
Evaluation method: Leading the tip of a micro-catheter to the BT
aneurysm fabricated on the cerebral artery, using widely utilized
medical tools, which include catheter, guide-wire, micro-catheter,
and micro guide-wire. The interventionalist inserts the tip of the
micro-catheter into the one of the three branches (diameter: 1 mm;
Fig. 3.48) artiicially fabricated on the aneurysm. The treatment of