Surgical simulator user input device
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1. A surgical simulator user input device comprising:
- a virtual medical instrument corresponding to a real surgical instrument used in a medical operation, said virtual medical instrument connected to a computer for simulating a surgical procedure and including a virtual mouse attached to a tube;
wherein said virtual medical instrument is capable of simulating multiple real surgical instruments by interchangeably utilizing a different virtual mouse attached to said tube wherein each of said different virtual mouse performs functions associated with a particular real surgical instrument to be simulated.
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Abstract
A virtual surgery system or virtual testing system provides a simulation or test based on image data. A simulator combined with a real exam requires simulation tasks by a test taker. Additionally, a surgical procedure may be simulated using image data of a patient in devices simulating the physical instruments a surgeon uses in performing the actual procedure, for example. The user input device, such as a mouse, three dimensional mouse, joystick, seven dimensional joystick, full size simulator, etc., can be used in a virtual simulation to move through the image data while the user looks at the data and interaction of the input device with the image data on a display screen. Force feedback can be provided based on physical constraint models (of the anatomy, for example), or based on edge and collision detection between the virtual scope or virtual tool used by the operator and walls or edges of the image data in the image space. The virtual simulator may be used as a teaching, training, testing, demonstration, or remote telesurgery device, for example.
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21 Claims
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1. A surgical simulator user input device comprising:
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a virtual medical instrument corresponding to a real surgical instrument used in a medical operation, said virtual medical instrument connected to a computer for simulating a surgical procedure and including a virtual mouse attached to a tube; wherein said virtual medical instrument is capable of simulating multiple real surgical instruments by interchangeably utilizing a different virtual mouse attached to said tube wherein each of said different virtual mouse performs functions associated with a particular real surgical instrument to be simulated. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A surgical simulator user input device comprising:
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a first surgical instrument simulator module for simulating procedures performed in a surgical procedure; and a second surgical instrument simulator module for simulating procedures performed in a surgical procedure; wherein said first surgical instrument simulator module and said second surgical instrument simulator module are interconnected and wherein said surgical simulator user input device is capable of simulating multiple real surgical instruments by interchangeably interconnecting different first and second surgical instrument simulator modules wherein each of said surgical instrument simulator modules perform functions associated with a particular real surgical instrument to be simulated. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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