Experience with a new virtual reality laparoscopic trainer for reproductive surgery

International Congress Series

Volumn 1271, Issue C, 2004, Pages 274-277

  Mettler, Liselotte ^a   Vanhecke, Kris ^a   Kühnapfel, Uwe ^b   Cakmak, Hüseyin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic training system; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868899791     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2004.05.144     Document Type: Article

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