Performance and ergonomic characteristics of expert surgeons using a face-mounted display during virtual reality-simulated laparoscopic surgery: An electromyographically based study

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1135-1141

  Lin, D W ^a,b   Bush, R W ^a,b   Earle, D B ^a,b   Seymour, N E ^a,b  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Ergonomics; Face mounted display; Laparoscopy; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MYELOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SURGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34347404102     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-9063-1     Document Type: Article

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