[Image guided and robotic treatment--the advance of cybernetics in clinical medicine].
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2000-05-25
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The introduction of advanced technology in hospitals has changed the treatment practice towards more image guided and minimal invasive procedures Modern computer and communication technology opens up for robot aided and pre programmed intervention Several robotic systems are in clinical use today both in microsurgery and in major cardiac and orthopedic operations As this trend develops professions which are new in this context such as physicists mathematicians and cybernetic engineers will be increasingly important in the treatment of patients