A Better View for Surgeons During Minimally Invasive Surgeries
Friday, January 2, 2009 - 14:56
in Health & Medicine
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is nearing completion of their first prototype of “SurgiCam,” a tiny surgical camera that can be inserted through a 1.5 cm incision in the abdomen during minimally invasive surgery (MIS).