Virtual surgery input device
DCFirst Claim
1. A virtual surgery input device comprising:
- a housing, said housing having a virtual orifice, wherein said virtual orifice is connected to a computer used for conducting a virtual surgery procedure and wherein said virtual orifice may be adjusted by the computer to represent a particular orifice of a human body; and
a surgical instrument simulator partially accommodated within said housing, said surgical instrument simulator entering said housing through said virtual orifice.
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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 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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32 Claims
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1. A virtual surgery input device comprising:
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a housing, said housing having a virtual orifice, wherein said virtual orifice is connected to a computer used for conducting a virtual surgery procedure and wherein said virtual orifice may be adjusted by the computer to represent a particular orifice of a human body; and a surgical instrument simulator partially accommodated within said housing, said surgical instrument simulator entering said housing through said virtual orifice. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A virtual surgery input device comprising:
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a housing, said housing having a virtual orifice connected to a computer used for conducting a virtual surgery procedure; and a surgical instrument simulator partially accommodated within said housing, said surgical instrument simulator entering said housing through said virtual orifice; wherein said virtual orifice may be adjusted by said computer to represent a particular orifice of a human body and wherein when said virtual orifice is adjusted to represent a particular orifice of a human body the computer provides data for the anatomy related to the particular orifice of the human body to a display device. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25)
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23. A virtual surgery input device comprising:
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a housing, said housing having a plurality of human anatomy simulators contained within said housing and wherein each of said human anatomy simulators are accessed through a virtual orifice, wherein said virtual orifice is connected to a computer used for conducting a virtual surgery procedure and wherein said virtual orifice may be adjusted by the computer to represent a particular orifice of a human body; and a surgical instrument simulator partially accommodated within said housing, said surgical instrument simulator entering said housing through said virtual orifice. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A virtual surgery input device comprising:
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a housing, said housing having a virtual orifice connected to a computer used for conducting a virtual surgery procedure; and a surgical instrument simulator partially accommodated within said housing, said surgical instrument simulator entering said housing through said virtual orifice; wherein said virtual orifice may be manually adjusted by a user of the virtual surgery input device to represent a particular orifice of a human body and wherein when said virtual orifice is adjusted to represent a particular orifice of a human body the computer provides data for the anatomy related to the particular orifice of the human body to a display device. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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