Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1126: Development of New Computer-based Methods for the Future Working Environment in Visceral Surgery
Subject Area
Medicine
Term
from 2005 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 462565
The surgeon's working environment of the future is defined by possibilities of new computer-based methods, such as navigation, telemanipulation, robotics, imaging and simulation. While these techniques already play an important role in neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery, computer-based techniques still have to be developed and tested intensively before they belong to the clinically proven repertoire of abdominal surgical techniques.
In order to develop new computer-based techniques for abdominal surgery the University Hospital Heidelberg, the University of Karlsruhe and the DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, in cooperation, are focusing on a well-defined set of specific issues confronted in abdominal surgery. In addition to robotics, medical engineering, computer science, medical and biological information technology, radiology and anaesthesia, diverse surgical disciplines (heart surgery, general and abdominal surgery, transplantation and vascular surgery) are exploring new methods for the planning and control of operations on abdominal organs and the heart. The primary goals are higher quality and safety and thus a lower risk of surgical interventions.
Relying on networking effects between surgery and medical engineering the research groups investigate data management, planning of surgical interventions, navigation, telemanipulation and the man-machine-interface. Thus, the link between surgical interventions and engineering is being explored and is reflected in the development of the new methods for computer-assisted surgery.
Currently the objects of research are minimally invasive surgery on the prostate and the beating heart, thermo-therapy for liver tumours, robot-assisted fundoplication, and other interventions on the heart and the liver.
In the Research Training Group the graduates acquire professional as well as interdisciplinary competence in project management and presentation skills. Another distinctive feature of the Research Training Group is the so-called evaluation project. Here deficiencies of the training programme, tutoring and cooperation are identified, improvements and new requirements are worked out and interdisciplinary teaching further developed.
In order to develop new computer-based techniques for abdominal surgery the University Hospital Heidelberg, the University of Karlsruhe and the DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, in cooperation, are focusing on a well-defined set of specific issues confronted in abdominal surgery. In addition to robotics, medical engineering, computer science, medical and biological information technology, radiology and anaesthesia, diverse surgical disciplines (heart surgery, general and abdominal surgery, transplantation and vascular surgery) are exploring new methods for the planning and control of operations on abdominal organs and the heart. The primary goals are higher quality and safety and thus a lower risk of surgical interventions.
Relying on networking effects between surgery and medical engineering the research groups investigate data management, planning of surgical interventions, navigation, telemanipulation and the man-machine-interface. Thus, the link between surgical interventions and engineering is being explored and is reflected in the development of the new methods for computer-assisted surgery.
Currently the objects of research are minimally invasive surgery on the prostate and the beating heart, thermo-therapy for liver tumours, robot-assisted fundoplication, and other interventions on the heart and the liver.
In the Research Training Group the graduates acquire professional as well as interdisciplinary competence in project management and presentation skills. Another distinctive feature of the Research Training Group is the so-called evaluation project. Here deficiencies of the training programme, tutoring and cooperation are identified, improvements and new requirements are worked out and interdisciplinary teaching further developed.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Participating Institution
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Campus Süd (aufgelöst); Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
Campus Süd (aufgelöst); Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Markus W. Büchler
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Dittmar Böckler; Professor Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Dillmann; Professor Dr. Carsten N. Gutt; Professor Dr.-Ing. Uwe D. Hanebeck; Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Kauczor; Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Meinzer; Professor Dr. Beat Peter Müller-Stich; Professor Dr. Boris Radeleff; Professor Dr. Jens Jochen Rassweiler; Privatdozent Dr. Bruno Martin Schmied; Professor Dr. Raffaele de Simone; Professor Dr. Karlheinz Sonntag; Professor Dr. Gábor Szabó, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Ivo Wolf; Professor Dr.-Ing. Heinz Wörn
