A Haptic Enabled Multimodal Pre-operative Planner for Hip Arthroplasty

This paper introduces the Multisense idea, with a special reference to the use of Haptics in the medical field and, in particular, in the planning of total hip replacement surgery. We emphasise the integration of different modalities and the capability of the multimodal system to gather and register data coming from different sources. The main description relates to the desktop setup of the system, although a large-scale “theatre” version is also operational. The paper starts

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: HAPTICS
• Authors: Silvano Imboden, Marco Petrone, Paolo Quadrani, Cinzia Zannoni, R. Mayoral, Gordon Clapworthy, Debora Testi, Marco Viceconti, D. Neiberg, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Darwin G. Caldwell
• Keywords: HAPTICS 2005, Multisense Idea, Special Reference, Total Hip Replacement, Virtual Reality