Applications of Robots in Surgery
- 26 May 2010
- book chapter
- other
- Published by IGI Global
Abstract
In this chapter authors explain an application robotics in the field of medical diagnosis as well as in different medical fields such as rehabilitation, surgery, various diagnostic stages, medical and surgical training, etc. They discuss simply omnipresent surgery or MIS and robotic surgery and introduce different robotic surgery systems and technologies in the world. They talk about surgery and different methods of it using a chronological approach.Keywords
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