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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dorin Panescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel H. Jones, Alexandria, VA (US);
Christopher Allenby, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system is provided to provide haptic feedback during a medical procedure comprising: a quantitative three-dimensional (Q3D) endoscope; a surgical instrument disposed to deform a tissue structure; a haptic user interface device configured to provide an indication of tissue structure deformation in response to information indicative of the measure of tissue structure deformation; and a processor configured to produce a Q3D model that includes information indicative of a measure of tissue structure deformation and to provide the information indicative of the measure of tissue structure deformation to the haptic user interface device.