Patient-Specific Vascular Modeling - Microsurgery: Advances, Simulations, and Applications - page 123

stress evaluation function, 80% of the evaluators termed it “useful,”
and the percentage of evaluator who judged it “useless” was only
4% of the whole (average score was 2.5/3.0). Moreover, comments
such as “it was able to know the transition of stress on vascular
wall applied by medical equipment, and dangerous operation and
dangerous state was clearly recognized” and “presented simulator is
extremely useful in acquiring surgical skills” were given a lot. For the
question, “Do you want to use the presented simulator for surgical
training, if he were an interventionalist,” more than half (54%) of
the evaluators answered “deinitely yes,” and they said, “I want to
improve their surgical skill by continuously making simulation with
this platform.” Moreover, 78% of evaluator answered, “I want to use
the simulator at all” (averaged score was 2.5/3.0).
Consequently, from these results, it was conirmed through this
evaluation that the existence of the proposed simulator had been
evaluated high, because malpractices had gained high attention
recently in Japan. Moreover, we conirmed that it is possible to easily
and accurately understand the correct medical procedures even for
an inexperienced person, by using the proposed simulator, and thus,
the presented simulator is valuable for surgical training purpose. It
was conirmed that the comprehensive simulator presented in this
chapter greatly improved the reproducibility of surgery (especially,
behavior and operational feeling of medical equipment) compared
with the cerebral arterial model presented in preceding chapters.
Moreover, it was conirmed that the stress evaluation method is
progressive as an environment for surgical simulator. And, as a result
of the evaluation made by actual interventionalist, it was conirmed
that the proposed simulation system realize the “condition required
for surgical simulator” at high standard, consequently, it is appropriate
as the simulation environment for endovascular intervention. On
the other hand, it was also conirmed that interventionalist hopes
the reproduction of entire surgical room, in addition to the human
body reproduction as described in the foregoing paragraph. The
necessity of considering ideal simulator construction was found
important. On the other hand, as a result of the evaluation made by
layperson, it is conirmed that the surgical procedures is concretely
and surely understandable even for the people who did not know
the treatment method at all (layperson) by using this simulator. This
result strongly indicates that the constructed simulator is suitable
as the training environment for this surgery. From the result of a