Projects
The work in our dedicated research areas leads to the following projects, each contributing to a specific surgical simulator.
Scientific projects
The following projects are being carried out, or have been completed, in cooperation with scientific and medical partners.
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CranioSim
This project aims to develop a surgical simulator for training cranial bone graft harvesting techniques. Motivation The first transplantation of a bone graft was reported in 1668 by…
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Dynamic Tactile Synthetic Tissue
In this project, we developed Dynamic Tactile Synthetic (DTS) Tissue: a fully soft artificial tissue that can both feel and move. It combines hydraulic actuation, pressure sensing and…
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Fetal Heart Phantom
FHSimApUs (Fetal Heart Simulator for the Development and Optimization of Ultrasound Imaging Algorithms) developed an active ultrasound phantom of a beating fetal heart. Together with GE Healthcare, the…
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HyTra
HyTra (Hybrid Tracking in Soft Tissue for Surgical Simulators) develops a hybrid tracking system that combines a conventional global tracking system with soft sensors embedded in the artificial…
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MEDUSA
MEDUSA (Medical EDUcation in Surgical Aneurysm clipping) developed a patient-specific mixed-reality simulator for cerebral aneurysm clipping. It combines a physical skull and brain phantom with virtual blood vessels…
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PatientSim
PatientSim , is our pilot project, in which we are developing a hybrid surgical simulator for cement augmentation techniques (see Figure 1). Motivation Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are…
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Smart Artificial Soft Tissue
In this project, we developed a hybrid surgical simulator for training the implantation of laryngeal pacemaker electrodes. At its core is a new type of sensing material, the…