2017 Volume 55Annual Issue 5AM-Abstract Pages 434
We have been developing a surgical navigation system to support a surgeon to identify the anatomical orientation. Its first prototype was designed in 2004 and clinically tested in 2006. During this decade, we have utilized it in one hundred clinical cases. Learned through trial and error, it was found that this system needed to improve the usability and the reliability in registration process to show valuable information for surgery. Our improved system was approved to use for clinical pre-trial from Hospital Ethics Committee of Tokyo Women's Medical University (160402), and it was utilized for six cases from June 2016 to January 2017. The new system worked suitably compared with the former one. As for spending time on the new system, it took 9.8±1.7 minutes before thoracotomy and 6.4±1.5 minutes after adhesiolysis. Target arteries were determined smoothly in all cases. We hope that widespread use of the system would be promoted.
