Harders Matthias, Spaelter Ulrich, Leskovsky Peter, Szekely Gabor, Bleuler Hannes
Virtual Reality in Medicine Group, Computer Vision Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2007;125:167-9.
A fundamental element of a surgical simulator system aiming at high fidelity is the surgical instrument to be used by the simulation. The input device, as well as haptic feedback from the system should resemble the real environment. In this paper we describe all elements of the haptic interface module developed for a hysteroscopy simulator.