Training system using Bionic-eye for internal limiting membrane peeling

Abstract

This paper reports on a training system for internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling. ILM peeling task is difficult even for skilled surgeons, because ILM is a quite thin film on retina and there is a risk to damage the retina at peeling. In order to obtain the skill of ILM peeling and even evaluate newly developed medical devices, the surgical model that can be used for quantitative evaluation is highly demanded. Therefore, here we propose a surgical model for eye surgery named “Bionic-eye”. Fundus of Bionic-eye has artificial ILM and retina. In addition, we assembled Bionic-eye on a whole body surgical model of human named “Bionic-humanoid”.