Quantitative measures of performance in microvascular anastomoses

Computer Aided Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 173-180

  McBeth, Paul B ^a   Louw, Deon F ^a   Yang, Fangwei ^a   Sutherland, Garnette R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Kinematics; Kolmogorov Smirnov statistic; Surgeon performance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; MICROSURGERY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 28844481868     PISSN: 10929088     EISSN: 10970150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10929080500229694     Document Type: Article

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