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Richard LaBarca
Senior Research Programmer

No longer a member of RI.

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My research is focused on providing surgical guidance to surgeons using intraoperative to preoperative data fusion incorporated into 3-D and 2-D computer graphics. My work is primarily used in the HipNav and KneeNav surgical guidance systems that are being developed in conjunction with the Institute for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital.

human-computer interaction, medical applications, and medical robotics

• Medical Instrumentation Lab - We are developing intelligent tools for microsurgery and minimally invasive surgery.
• Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery - Researching planning (medical image computing, simulation) and execution (intraoperative sensing and actuation) technologies for computer-assisted surgery.

• 3D Image Overlay - X-ray vision has always been the dream of surgeons; Image Overlay is the next best thing.
• Hip Navigation System - Preoperative and intraoperative planning and execution system for high-precision total hip replacement.
• Hip Range of Motion - Preoperative planning system for total hip replacement
• Knee Navigation Systems (KneeNav TKR/ACL) - We are developing two CT-based surgical navigation systems for total knee replacement and ACL reconstructive surgery.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Calibration Method for Determining the Physical Location of the Ultrasound Image Plane
  D. Amin, T. Kanade, B. Jaramaz, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, C. Nikou, R. LaBarca, and J.E. Moody
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2001), October, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [712 KB] copyrighted

• An Image Guided Navigation System for Accurate Alignment in Total Hip Replacement Surgery
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, M. Blackwell, D. Simon, F. Morgan, J.E. Moody, C. Nikou, B. Colgan, C. Aston, R. LaBarca, E. Kischell, and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-98-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [836 KB], ps.gz [2471 KB] copyrighted

• Sidewinder II
  R. LaBarca and et al
  Walking Machine Decathlon, SAE, 1996.
  Download: pdf [134 KB], ps.gz [145 KB] copyrighted