Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1
Introduction
As far as research is done in ields of medicine and engineering, it is
needed to develop joint projects between both ields to provide physi-
cians of new tools and methods for training [1-3], for disease diagnosis
[4-5], for treatment [6-7], therapy and rehabilitation [8-9]. This topic
was written with the motivation to make a contribution to develop such
kind of tools and methods, speciically for endovascular intervention.
Following that idea, a modeling technique for in vitro representation
of human vasculature is presented with some of its applications. To set
the context of this simulation tool and its applications, we will make an
overview of medical robotics and regenerative medicine techniques
related to the contents of the following chapters.
Medical robotics is divided in three domains that are deined
according to the time were the application of medical robotics enters
in contact with the patient:
v
Pre-surgery: diagnostic, path planning, simulation and training
v
Intra-surgery: robotic surgery, drug delivery systems,
telesurgery, organ regeneration and implants
v
Post-surgery: rehabilitation, prosthesis and assistance
1.1
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) was created following physicians'
desire to reduce recovery time of patients, by reducing the damage
 
 
 
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