Development of a force measurement device for the tele-operative catheter operating system

In minimally invasive neurosurgical field, specialized education and surgical training for physicians are urgent demanded, at the same time, development and improvement of the field medical equipment are very essential. Vascalar Interventional Surgery (VIS) is expected to become increasingly popular in medical practice, both for diagnosis and for surgery. However, there are some problems. For example, doctor's hands and faces are exposed to X-rays during an operation. To solve these problems, researches of robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery assistant have been carried out widely. The purpose of this paper is to develop force measurement device for a teleoperative catheter operating system. Some experiments based on the desgined device has been done, The results illustrate that the designed device is good for training the surgeon.