Clinical Day
Chairmen: Leonard Berliner, MD (USA), Kevin Cleary, PhD (USA)
08:00 Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery – MISS
Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Room Berlin
Session Chairs:
John C. Chiu, DDSc, MD (USA), H.K. Huang, DSc (USA)
08:00 Minimally invasive spine surgeon's perspective and technological consideration: OR digital technology convergence and control system
Invited Speaker: J.C. Chiu, California Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Newbury Park, CA (USA)
08:15 Surgical informatics for MISS
Invited Speaker: H.K. Huang, Univ. of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA (USA)
08:30 Navigation CT-scan guided in minimal invasive spinal surgery
P.P.M. Menchetti, Univ. La Sapienza, Florence (I)
08:45 Needle insertion robot for percutaneous vertebroplasty: accuracy evaluation of the needle insertion with vertebral model
S. Onogi, M. Gotoh, Y. Nakajima, E. Kobayashi, I. Sakuma, The Univ. of Tokyo, T. Koyama, Y. Tamura, K. Yonenobu, Osaka Minami Medical Center, N. Sugano, Osaka Univ. (J)
09:00 Reduction of radiation dose during facet joint injection using the new navigation system Sabre source: a prospective study in 60 patients
D. Proschek, C. Kafchitsas, M. Rauschmann, F. Geiger, Univ. Hosp., Frankfurt (D)
09:15 Application and valence of the 3D C-arm at interventions in the cervical and upper thoracic spine
J.-S. Jarvers, S. Katscher, T. Blattert, H. Siekmann, C. Josten, Univ. Hosp., Leipzig (D)
09:30 A novel technique for image-guided placement of sacroiliac screws
J. Babbitz, J. Lopez, K. Kim, Univ. of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA (USA)
09:45 Break