Using actual surgical navigation data to design or study the workspace of neurosurgical manipulators

In recent years there has been a steady increase in the use of robotic in medical fields due to their precision, repeatability and high workload. This has led to many new attempts in the design and development of new neurosurgical robots. In each of these new designs the researchers target a group of tasks that occurs in surgery as knowledge in these workspace specifications are important. Therefore researchers necessary data from observations and experiments in real surgeries are essential. This is a big challenge to ethics applications as these observations usually introduce new attachments to the surgery area (like position sensors). This paper discusses a basic study on the use of Image guided surgery data that are already available in operating theaters to be used in robotic design applications.