Preface |
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1 The Four Senses in Humans: Sight, Hearing, Smell, and Taste |
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The Adjustment in the Eyes |
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The Function of the Outer Ear |
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The Function of the Middle Ear |
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The Function of the Inner Ear |
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The Function of the Round Window |
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The Activation of Auditory Afferents |
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The Pattern of Vibration of the Basilar Membrane |
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The Coding of Frequency of a Sound |
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2.2 The Exteroceptive Sensor System |
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2.3 The Proprioceptive Sensor System |
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2.4 Transduction of Mechanical Stimuli to Neural Impulses |
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2.5 Pathways of Tactile Information |
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2.6 Special Features of Tactile Sensing |
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3 Introduction to Tactile Sensing and Tactile Sensors |
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Terminology of Artificial Sensors |
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Some Other Specifications for Tactile Sensors |
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Classification of Tactile Sensors |
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4 Introduction to Tactile Sensing Technologies |
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Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) |
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4.4 Conductive Elastomers and Carbon Fibers |
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4.7 Time of Flight Sensors |
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4.8 Binary Pressure Sensors |
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4.10 The Hall Effect and Magnetoresistance |
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5.3 Semiconductor Strain Gauges |
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6.1 Piezoelectric Materials |
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6.2 Piezoelectric Ceramics |
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6.3 Directional Dependence of Piezoelectricity |
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6.4 Polyvinylidene Fluoride |
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6.5 Piezoelectric Sensors in Biomedical Applications |
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A Piezoelectric Tactile Sensor for Use in Endoscopic Surgery |
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A Multifunctional PVDF-Based Tactile Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery |
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A Piezoelectric Tactile Sensory System with Graphical Display of Tactile Sensing Data |
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A Hybrid Piezoelectric-Capacitive Tactile Sensor |
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7 Application of Tactile Sensing in Surgery |
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7.1 Open Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery |
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7.2 Basic Components of a Tactile Sensing System for Use in MIS |
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Design Considerations for Tactile Sensing Systems in MIS |
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7.3 Remote Palpation Instruments for MIS |
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Design Specifications for Remote Palpation Instruments |
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Analysis of Contact Force Between an Endoscopic Grasper Used in MIS and the Biological Tissues |
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8 Tactile Image Information |
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8.1 Introduction to Palpation |
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8.2 Taxonomy of Palpation |
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8.3 Palpation and Tactile Image |
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Information for Mapping Tactile Imaging |
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Imaging Procedures for Breast Cancer |
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Tactile Imaging and Breast Cancer Screening |
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Estimating of Lesion Parameters |
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Tactile Information from Finite Element Models |
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9 Application and Recent Developments of Tactile Sensing in Tumor Detection |
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9.2 Detection of Tumors Using a Computational Tactile Sensing Method |
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9.3 Application of Artificial Neural Networks for the Estimation of Tumor Characteristics in Biological Tissues |
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9.4 Prediction of Tumor Existence in the Virtual Soft Tissue by Using Tactile Tumor Detector |
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9.5 Graphical Rendering of Localized Lumps for MIS Applications |
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10 Determination of Mechanical Properties of Biological Tissues Including Stiffness and Hardness |
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Determining the Stiffness of Cartilage |
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10.2 Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of a Novel Flexible Membrane Tactile Sensor |
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Two-Dimensional Surface Texture Image Detection |
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10.3 A Micromachined Active Tactile Sensor for Hardness Detection |
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Principle of the Tactile Sensor |
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10.4 Design and Fabrication of a New Tactile Probe for Measuring the Modulus of Elasticity of Soft Tissues |
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Description of the System |
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10.5 Tactile Distinction of an Artery and a Tumor in a Soft Tissue by Finite Element Method |
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11 Application of Tactile Sensing in Robotic Surgery |
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An Aspect of an Integrated System |
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11.2 Application of Robots in Surgery |
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Current Applications of Robotic Surgery |
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Tension Measurement in Suturing |
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Commercial Robots for Surgery |
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Companies Which Produce Commercial Robots |
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Commercial Robots for Surgery |
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Force Sensors for Surgical Robots |
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Telemonitoring Skin Conditions |
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A Tactile Sensor for Detection of Skin Surface Morphology |
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12 Haptics Application in Surgical Simulation |
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12.1 Virtual Reality (VR) and Virtual Environments (VEs) |
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Applications of Virtual Reality |
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12.2 Haptics-Based Surgical Simulation |
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Medical Training Simulation |
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Deformable Models for Tissue Simulation |
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Surgical Simulators Based on Haptics |
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Abbreviations |
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Index |
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