{"id":2730,"date":"2013-10-25T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:15","slug":"vise-affiliates-restore-surgeons-sense-of-touch-during-minimally-invasive-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/vise-affiliates-restore-surgeons-sense-of-touch-during-minimally-invasive-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"ViSE affiliates restore surgeon\u2019s sense of touch during minimally invasive surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During open surgery doctors rely on their sense of touch to identify the edges of hidden tumors and to locate hidden blood vessels and other anatomical structures: a procedure they call palpation. But this practice is not possible in minimally invasive surgery where surgeons work with small, specialized tools and miniature cameras that fit through small incisions in a patient\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n<p>In order to provide the benefits of palpation to minimally invasive surgery, a team of engineers and doctors at ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ headed by <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/me\/faculty-staff\/pietro-valdastri.php\">Pietro Valdastri<\/a>, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and medicine, has designed a special-purpose wireless capsule equipped with a pressure sensor that fits through the small ports that surgeons use for what is also called \u201ckeyhole\u201d surgery. The system is described in an article in press at the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/tbme.embs.org\/\"><em>IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2013\/restoring-surgeons%E2%80%99-sense-of-touch-during-minimally-invasive-surgeries\/\">Restore sense of touch during surgery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During open surgery doctors rely on their sense of touch to identify the edges of hidden tumors and to locate hidden blood vessels and other anatomical structures: a procedure they call palpation. But this practice is not possible in minimally invasive surgery where surgeons work with small, specialized tools and miniature cameras that fit through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[231],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-I2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}