The gallbladder concentrates and stores bile as a pear-shaped sac which it can release to help digestion after a fatty meal.
Modern medical research is not concentrated on a single discipline. The interdisciplinary approach was shown to provide many benefits involved in dealing with currently prevalent medical issues and rare diseases alike. Besides the pharmaceutical and surgical research, a number of different branches of science and the industry have joined the business of finding better ways to heal people.
The most cutting edge research of today has to do with finding new and better ways to implement computer science into the field of surgery. Government agencies, the military and defense industry, universities, hospital research centers, independent research labs and non-profits are all looking into new breakthroughs in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics in order to improve upon existing treatments. Research is also performed with the aim of developing mathematical algorithms that will allow quantification and assessment of surgical skills.
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Further experiments are being performed attempting to use the API and mathematical alogrithms to allow a quantification of surgical skill.
An artistic shot of an operator in preparation for a research experiment. Extensive work into imaging modalities is performed in the SLR Research Lab.
Limitations discovered during attempts at real-time visual overlay lead to a simple hybrid technique allowing input from multiple sources to be fed directly to the surgical console. A cholangiogram is demonstrated
The robotic system allows a true three dimensional view of the minimally invasive operating field. These experiments performed in collaboration with the Columbia Machine Learning Laboratory demonstrated some of the limitations of further miniaturization.
Although the mechanics seem rudimentary- these experiments demonstrated limitations with perspective lost using a scope with a different point of view other than that used during a typical robotic case.
Another shot of the transgastric robotic instruments- Visualization and orientation was extremely difficult secondary to the third-party scope as well as the frequent intracorporeal collisions that also resulted in rotation of the viewing plane.
A bench model demonstrates the Da Vinci system being used for the inital feasibility of the TECAB model.
Work on Robotic NOTES surgery is shown. The endoscope that was spliced into the machine is being cleaned between procedures.
Use of the Da Vinci robot for intraorgan NOTES procedures are topics of interest for my laboratory. The original hook-up of an Olympus scope is demonstrated prior allowing callibration with the robotic system.
Limitations of fluoroscopic disparity are demonstrated in bench models attempting visual and radiographic
Two transgastric graspers are shown in the top right of the picture. These initial experiments attempted a plication of the hiatus using an endoscope for visualization spliced into the Da Vinci Console.