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A Study of Instrument Motion in Vitreoretinal Microsurgery

Cameron Riviere and Patrick Jensen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '00), pp. 59 - 60, July, 2000

Abstract

This paper reports on high-precision recordings of hand-held instrument motion during actual vitreoretinal microsurgery. The movement of a hand-held instrument during vitreoretinal microsurgery was recorded in six degrees of freedom. Data were acquired for 5 min using an inertial sensing module that has been developed for use with a commercially available microsurgical instrument. Maximum velocity used by the surgeon was estimated at 0.70 m/s, and maximum acceleration at 30.1 m/s2. The rms amplitude of tremor in the instrument tip motion was estimated to be 0.182 mm.

BibTeX

@conference{Riviere-2000-8075,
author = {Cameron Riviere and Patrick Jensen},
title = {A Study of Instrument Motion in Vitreoretinal Microsurgery},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '00)},
year = {2000},
month = {July},
pages = {59 - 60},
keywords = {tremor, microsurgery, inertial sensing, accuracy},
}