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Advances in Computer Aided Soft Tissue Surgery
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Weber
University of Bern
ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research
Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics
Abstract
Image-guided navigation technology is widely-used in several surgical
disciplines, especially neurosurgery, otolaryngology, and orthopaedic
surgery. The applications of this technology in these disciplines has
been successful for the most part due to the ability to rigidly
immobilize the body part of interest during surgery, and also due to the
fact that there is very little movement of the body part at the time of
the surgery. In contradistinction, stereotactic technology for mobile,
deformable soft tissues in the abdomen, pelvis and chest remains highly
problematic. The major cause for this is the difficulty in obtaining and
maintaining precise registration of fixed pre-treatment image data sets
(preoperative CT/MRI) with continuously changing patient anatomy. The
talk reports on the most recent applications of stereotactic navigation
systems for application during in soft tissue surgical treatments. The
talk will also illustrate novel ways of introducing computer assistance
for planning and treatment to other advanced medical topics such as
Cardiology, Radiooncology or Urology.
Biography
Stefan Weber received
his degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from the University
of Ilmenau (Germany) in 1998. He then joined the Robotics Lab of the
University of Southern California USC as a Fulbright Fellow. In 2000 he
started his doctoral research at the Surgical Robotics and Navigation
Laboratory at the Charité Hospital in Berlin. Following his PhD degree
in 2004 on Augmented Reality applications in medicine and surgical
navigation in 2005 he moved to the Technical University of Munich where
he led the Soft Tissue Navigation and Medical Home Care groups of the
Chair for Micro- and Medical Device Technology. In 2008 he became
Co-Director of the Center for Computer Assisted Surgery at the Institute
for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics and ARTORG Professor for
Implantation Technology. |
