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diversiied evaluation above, it has been understood that the surgical
simulator proposed by this research is advanced as a platform for
simulating endovascular intervention procedures. We conirmed
that this simulator is very useful in a wide variety of purposes, which
include surgical training and diagnosis and evaluation of procedures,
providing innovative platform for engineering researchers and
science researchers in addition to medical doctors.
In this chapter, we developed the patient-speciic vascular
modeling technique and reproduced overall arterial area of diameter
1 mm or more, which can be treated by this endovascular approach.
In this way, we constructed a comprehensive surgical simulation
system for endovascular intervention. Meanwhile, human-like pulsed
blood streaming was reproduced in this simulator by developing a
pulsatile blood pump, and we conirmed that the behavior and the
surgical feeling can be realistically reproducible by this simulator.
As a result, it was conirmed that the proposed simulation system
realize the “required condition” itemized in the beginning of the
chapter and the system is progressive and valuable as a simulation
environment. It was also conirmed that the system is useful as the
environment for an individual medical treatment (diagnosis and
rehearsal, etc.), and its practical use is strongly expected.
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