UTILIZING A VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATOR, NEUROTOUCH, TO DETERMINE PROFICIENCY PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS FOR RESECTION OF SIMULATED BRAIN TUMORS

Authors: Gmaan AlZhrani, Fahad AlOtaibi, Hamed Azarnoush, Alexander Winkler-Schwartz, Abdulrahman Sabbagh, Susanne Lajoie, Rolando Del Maestro

Publication date: 2014

Journal: Neuro-Oncology

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: The assessment of neurosurgical technical skills during the resection of cerebral tumors in operative environments is complex. Virtual-reality simulation, have the potential to play important roles in the training of neurosurgical trainees. The purpose of this study was to develop benchmarks for a newly proposed set of objective measures (metrics) of neurosurgical technical skills during simulated brain tumors resection using a new virtual reality simulator (NeuroTouch). 33 participants were recruited for this study including 17 experts (Board Certified neurosurgeons), 9 junior and 7 senior neurosurgery residents). Each participant resected 18 simulated brain tumors of varying complexity utilizing the NeuroTouch platform. Metrics for assessing surgical performance consisted of (a) volume of surrounding simulated ‘normal’brain tissue removed;(b) maximum force applied;(c) sum of forces …

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UTILIZING A VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATOR, NEUROTOUCH, TO DETERMINE PROFICIENCY PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS FOR RESECTION OF SIMULATED BRAIN TUMORS

UTILIZING A VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATOR, NEUROTOUCH, TO DETERMINE PROFICIENCY PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS FOR RESECTION OF SIMULATED BRAIN TUMORS

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