Electronic journal Emmanuel Vander Poorten – 06/2014-08/2014

1 – Clinical Part

• study of TTTS procedure – participation to interventions in hospital – discussion on state-of-the-art, discussion on surgical needs and challenges.
• evaluation of types of instruments, instrument shape, instrument motion.
• acquainted to OR layout, composition of OR team and position in OR.
• Discussion with Prof. Deprest,main problems, reason for premature delivery, stress at body wall, structure of patient wall.
• investigation of instruments – instrument types – characteristics – looked into possibility of building testbed to automatically evaluate instrument specifications (related to image quality).

2 – Technical Part

• First draft of requirements of single arm bending instrument.
• Data gathering in hospital, use of Nucleus system – visit to eSaturnus – discussion on synchronisation of data with Nucleus
• Discussion with IT people from hospital for status and use of Nucleus.
• Design of testbed with actuation to replicate breathing.
• Design of force sensitive plate, first concepts, FEM simulation.
• Intra-operative measurement of scope position, checking of EM-tracking solution, first concepts for Storz-dedicated connectors.