Korb Werner, Bohn Stefan, Burgert Oliver, Dietz Andreas, Jacobs Stephan, Falk Volkmar, Meixensberger Jürgen, Strauss Gero, Trantakis Christos, Lemke Heinz U
Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery, Leipzig, Germany.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2006;119:267-72.
For better integration of surgical assist systems into the operating room, a common communication and processing plattform that is based on the users needs is needed. The development of such a system, a Surgical Picture Aquisition and Communication System (S-PACS), according the systems engineering cycle is oulined in this paper. The first two steps (concept and specification) for the engineering of the S-PACS are discussed.A method for the systematic integration of the users needs', the Quality Function Deployment (QFD), is presented. The properties of QFD for the underlying problem and first results are discussed. Finally, this leads to a first definition of an S-PACS system.
