The implementation of telemanipulator systems for cardiac surgery enabled heart surgeons to perform delicate minimally invasive procedures with high precision under stereoscopic v...
Hermann Georg Mayer, Istvan Nagy, Alois Knoll, Eva...
Robotic cardiac catheters have the potential to revolutionize heart surgery by extending minimally invasive techniques to complex surgical repairs inside the heart. However, cathet...
— Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is probably an important milestone in the cardiac surgery history. This technique is currently made possible thanks to the use o...
Wael Bachta, Pierre Renaud, Edouard Laroche, Anton...
Abstract— Tying suture knots is a time-consuming task performed frequently during Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). Automating this task could greatly reduce total surgery time f...
Hermann Georg Mayer, Faustino J. Gomez, Daan Wiers...
—New 3D ultrasound visualization has enabled minimally invasive, beating-heart intracardiac procedures. However, rapid motion of internal heart structures limits the realization ...
Daniel T. Kettler, Richard D. Plowes, Paul M. Novo...