News
News Coverage
"Mimic Surgery Simulator On Market", Puget Sound Business Journal, May 20th, 2010.
King 5 News Video
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Health Journal Television
Mimic's robotic surgery simulation technology was recently featured on Health Journal Television.
Press Releases
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1/23/2012 New MScore to be unveiled at IMSH Conference
11/10/2011 New Study to Compare Simulation Training Techniques
Validation Studies
"Does Training on a Virtual Reality Robotic Simulator Improve Performance on the da Vinci® Surgical System?”, Journal of Endourology, Volume 24, Number 3, March 2010, by M. Lerner, M. Ayalew, W. Peine,, C. Sundaram
“Face, Content, and Construct Validity of dV-Trainer, a Novel Virtual Reality Simulator for Robotic Surgery", Journal of Urology, Volume 73, Issue 6, June 2009, by P. Kenney, M. Wszolek, J. Gould, J. Libertino, A. Moinzadeh
“Validation of a Novel Virtual Reality Robotic Simulator", Journal of Endourology, Volume 23, Number 3, March 2009, by A. Sethi, W. Peine, Y. Mohammadi, C. Sundaram
“Initial validation of a virtual-reality robotic simulator”, Journal of Robotic Surgery, Volume 2, Number 3, September 2008, by T. Lendvay, P. Casale, R. Sweet, C. Peters
"Validation of the dV-Trainer®, a novel virtual reality simulator for robotic surgery", New England
Section of the AUA, 77th Annual Meeting, September, 2008, by P. Kenney, M. Wszolek, J. Gould, J.
Libertino, A. Moinzadeh.
“Face and Content Validation of a Novel Robotic Virtual Reality”, American Urological Association
Annual Meeting, May 2008 Proceedings , by A. Sethi, W. Peine, Y. Mohammadi, T. Gardner, M. Koch,
and C. Sundaram
Articles & Publications
"Simulation in Plastic Surgery Training and Education: The Path Forward", Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Volume 123, Number 2, February 2009, by J. Rosen, S. Long, D. McGrath, S. Greer
"Virtual reality System Helps Surgeons Train", HospiMedica.com, 14 August, 2008.
“HazBot: Development of a Telemanipulator Robot with Haptics for Emergency Response”, Journal of Disaster Management, March/April 2008; pages 87-97, by J. Jurmain, A. Blancero, A. Bennett, C. Jones, J. Berkley, M. Vollenweider, J. Geiling, M. Minsky, J. Bowersox, and J. Rosen
“Saving Lives: Simulations Promise Better Training for Combat Medics”, National Defense , Volume XCII, Number 649, December 2007, by B. Wagner.
“Virtual Reality-Assisted Robotic Surgery Simulation”, Journal of Endourology , Volume 21, Number 3, March 2007, J. Albani, and D. Lee.
“Review of Trainers for Transurethral Resection of the Prostate Skills”, Journal of Endourology , Volume 21, Number 3, March 2007, by R. Sweet.
“Lending a Hand: Robotic surgery makes inroads into the OR and beyond”, Minnesota Physician 21(7):1, 2007, by Sweet, R.M.
“Simulation and Computer Animated Devices: The New Minimally Invasive Skills Training Paradigm”, Urologic Clinics of North America (book chapter), in press, by Sweet, R.M. and McDougall, E. M.
“Real-Time Finite Element Modeling for Surgery Simulation: An Application to Virtual Suturing”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , Vol. 10, Issue 3, May 2004, by J. Berkley, G. Turkiyyah, D. Berg, M. Ganter, and S. Weghorst.
A Novel Seven Degree of Freedom Haptic Device for Engineering”, Virtual Reality , September 2003, S. Kim, J. Berkley, and M. Sato.