This thesis describes technology developed by the author enabling trainee surgeons to perform needle insertion procedures with force feedback (haptics) on a virtual patient. Addition of the sense of touch to medical simulation is arguably the most important step forward in the evolution of haptic technology to this day
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Submitted to the School of Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Deakin University
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-153)
