Optimal port placement and enhanced guidance in robotically assisted cardiac surgery

Optimizing port placement for robot-assi

Optimizing port placement for robot-assisted minimally invasive cardiac surgery

✍ A. L. Trejos; R. V. Patel; I. Ross; B. Kiaii 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Wiley (Robotic Publications) 🌐 English ⚖ 728 KB

## Abstract ## Background Proper placement of ports during robot‐assisted endoscopic surgery is critical to the success of the procedure. In current practice, port placement methods do not consider the ability of the robot to manoeuvre the tools. ## Methods This paper proposes to choose the best