Imperial College London
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ProfessorFernandoBello

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Professor of Surgical Computing and Simulation Science
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 3315 8231f.bello Website

 
 
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Location

 

G3.50Chelsea and Westminster HospitalChelsea and Westminster Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Granados:2017:10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_56,
author = {Granados, A and Maréchal, L and Barrow, A and Petrou, G and Norton, C and Bello, F},
doi = {10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_56},
pages = {327--333},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {Relax and tighten—a haptics-based approach to simulate sphincter tone assessment},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_56},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Digital Rectal Examination (DRE) is a physical examination performed by clinicians to diagnose anorectal and prostate abnormalities. Amongst these, sphincter tone assessment is a crucial task where a clinician asks the patient to relax or squeeze, whilst measuring its function by the amount of pressure felt on the examining finger. DRE is difficult to learn and current models fail to reproduce the dynamic function of anorectal abnormalities. We propose a haptics-based approach to incorporate sphincter tone into our current simulator by motor-controlled pulling and releasing of cables that are coiled around a silicone model of the sphincters. A range of healthy and abnormal sphincter tone cases can be modelled by controlling the motors symmetrically and asymmetrically.
AU  - Granados,A
AU  - Maréchal,L
AU  - Barrow,A
AU  - Petrou,G
AU  - Norton,C
AU  - Bello,F
DO  - 10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_56
EP  - 333
PB  - Springer
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1876-1100
SP  - 327
TI  - Relax and tighten—a haptics-based approach to simulate sphincter tone assessment
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_56
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/68264
ER  -
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