The role of posture, magnification, and grip force on microscopic accuracy

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 997-1006

  Safwat, Basil ^a   Su, Eileen L M ^a   Gassert, Roger ^a   Teo, Chee Leong ^b   Burdet, Etienne ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Grip force; Magnification; Manipulation; Microscopy; Microsurgery; Posture

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; GRIP FORCE; MAGNIFICATION; MANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY; MICROSURGERY; POSTURE;

END EFFECTORS; MICROMANIPULATORS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

SURGERY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; FATIGUE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FATIGUE; FEEDBACK; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TREMOR;

EID: 63949087940     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9664-7     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Ackland R. D. (1989). Practice Manual for Microvascular Surgery, 2nd edn. Baltimore: C.V. Mosby Co.
2. Balasubramanian, R., R. D. Howe, and Y. Matsuoka. Task performance is prioritized over energy reduction. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 2008. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2006683.
3. A. Beuter H. Haverkamp L. Glass L. Carriere 1995 Effect of manipulating visual feedback parameters on eye and finger movements Int. J. Neurosci. 83 281 294
4. E. Burdet R. Osu D. W. Franklin T. Milner M. Kawato 2001 The central nervous system stabilizes unstable dynamics by learning optimal impedance Nature 414 446 449 10.1038/35106566
5. P. Cesari K. M. Newell 1999 The scaling of human grip configurations J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. 25 927 935 10.1037/0096-1523.25.4.927
6. L. Cleeves L. J. Findley M. Gresty 1987 Assessment of rest tremor in Parkinson's disease Adv. Neurol. 45 349 352
7. Elble, R. J. Mechanisms of physiologic tremor and relationship to essential tremor. Handbook of tremor disorders. New York : Marcel Dekker, 1994.
8. R. J. Elble J. E. Randall 1976 Motor-unit activity responsible for 8- to 12-Hz component of human physiological finger tremor J. Neurophysiol. 39 370 383
9. S. C. Gandevia D. Burke 1992 Does the nervous system depend on kinesthetic information to control natural limb movements Behav. Brain Sci. 15 614 632
10. R. C. Harwell R. L. Ferguson 1983 Physiologic tremor and microsurgery Microsurgery 4 187 192 10.1002/micr.1920040310
11. K. E. Jones A. F. Hamilton D. M. Wolpert 2002 Sources of signal dependent noise during isometric force production J. Neurophysiol. 88 1533 1544 10.1152/jn.00403.2001
12. M. Kawato 1999 Internal models for motor control and trajectory planning Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 9 718 727 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00028-8
13. J. Keogh S. Morrison R. Barrett 2004 Augmented visual feedback increases finger tremor during postural pointing Exp. Brain Res. 159 467 477 10.1007/s00221-004-1968-0
14. I. Kurtzer T. M. Herter H. Scott 2005 Random change in cortical load representation suggests distinct control of posture and movement Nat. Neurosci. 8 498 504
15. J. D. Lubahn B. G. Dickson T. E. Cooney 2002 Effect of Timolol vs. a postural orthotic on hand tremor during microsurgery Microsurgery 22 273 276 10.1002/micr.10049
16. Massie, T., and K. Salisbury. The PHANTOM haptic interface: a device for probing virtual objects. Proceedings of the ASME Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, 1994.
17. D. S. McManamny 1983 Comparison of microscope and loupe magnification: assistance for the repair of median and ulnar nerves Br. J. Plast. Surg. 36 367 372
18. S. Morrison J. Keogh 2001 Changes in the dynamics of tremor during goal-directed pointing Hum. Mov. Sci. 20 675 693 10.1016/S0167-9457(01)00072-0
19. S. Morrison K. Newell 2000 Postural and resting tremor in the upper limb Clin. Neurophysiol. 111 651 663 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00302-8
20. D. Pieptu S. Luchian 2003 Loupes-only microsurgery Microsurgery 23 181 188 10.1002/micr.10126
21. J. A. Rock C. A. Bergquist A. W. Kimball Jr. H. A. Zacur T. M. King 1984 Comparison of the operating microscope and loupe for microsurgical tubal anastomosis: a randomized clinical trial Fertil. Steril. 41 229 232
22. M. D. Rooks J. Slappey K. Zusmanis 1993 Precision of suture placement with microscope- and loupe-assisted anastomoses Microsurgery 14 547 550 10.1002/micr.1920140813
23. Safwat, B. Investigating the Effect of Posture and Visual Feedback on Physiological Tremor. MSc Thesis, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 2005.
24. L. P. Selen P. J. Beek J. H. Van Dieen 2005 Can co-activation reduce kinematic variability? A simulation study Biol. Cybern. 93 373 381 10.1007/s00422-005-0015-y
25. J. M. Spyers-Ashby P. G. Bain S. J. Roberts 1998 A comparison of fast fourier transform and autoregressive spectral estimation techniques for the analysis of tremor data J. Neurosci. Methods 83 35 43 10.1016/S0165-0270(98) 00064-8
26. J. A. Stephens A. Taylor 1974 The effect of visual feedback on physiological muscle tremor Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 36 457 464 10.1016/0013-4694(74)90202-8
27. P. Tass A. Wunderlin M. Schanz 1995 A theoretical model of sinusoidal forearm tracking with delayed visual feedback J. Biol. Phys. 21 83 112 10.1007/BF00705593
28. D. Vaillancourt K. Newell 2000 Amplitude changes in the 8-12, 20-25, and 40 Hz oscillations in finger tremor Clin. Neurophysiol. 111 1792 1801 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00378-3
29. R. J. Van Beers A. C. Sittig J. J. van Der Gon Denier 1996 How humans combine simultaneous proprioceptive and visual position information Exp. Brain Res. 111 253 261 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)60413-6
30. K. Vasilakos A. Beuter 1993 Effects of noise on a delayed visual feedback system J. Theor. Biol. 165 389 407 10.1006/jtbi.1993.1196
31. K. Vasilakos L. Glass A. Beuter 1998 Interaction of tremor and magnification in a motor performance task with visual feedback J. Motor Behav. 30 158 168
32. R. H. Wyatt 1968 A study of power spectral analysis of normal finger tremors IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 15 33 45 10.1109/TBME.1968.4502530