Development and validation of non-guided bladder-neck and neurovascular-bundle dissection modules of the RobotiX-Mentor® full-procedure robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy virtual reality simulation.

Jan EbbingPeter N WiklundOlof AkreStefan CarlssonMats J OlssonJonas HöijerMaurice HeimerJustin W Collins

Published in: The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS (2020)

We proved face and content validity of simulator and both modules, and construct validity for generic metrics of the ngBND module and for generic and task-specific metrics of the ngNVBD module.

Keyphrases

virtual reality
radical prostatectomy
prostate cancer
network analysis
spinal cord injury