| 461 | -- | 462 | . Preface |
| 463 | -- | 479 | Tatsushi Tokuyasu, Shin ichiro Oota, Toru Tokuyama, Ken ichi Asami, Tadashi Kitamura, Gen ichi Sakaguchi, Tadaaki Koyama, Masashi Komeda. Mechanical modeling of a beating heart for a cardiac palpation training system |
| 481 | -- | 501 | Shigeyuki Shimachi, Akira Hashimoto, Masamichi Sakaguchi. Motion order system for the end effector of an instrument used in endoscopic surgery |
| 503 | -- | 521 | Atsushi Nishikawa, Daiji Negoro, Haruhiko Kakutani, Fumio Miyazaki, Mitsugu Sekimoto, Masayoshi Yasui, Shuji Takiguchi, Morito Monden. Design of an endoscopic solo surgery simulator for quantitative evaluation of the human-machine interface in robotic camera positioning systems |
| 523 | -- | 539 | Nobuto Matsuhira, Makoto Jinno, Toyomi Miyagawa, Takamitsu Sunaoshi, Takehiro Hato, Yasuhide Morikawa, Toshiharu Furukawa, Soji Ozawa, Masaki Kitajima, Kazuo Nakazawa. Development of a functional model for a master-slave combined manipulator for laparoscopic surgery |
| 541 | -- | 560 | Gernot Kronreif, Martin Fürst, Joachim Kettenbach, Michael Figl, Rudolf Hanel. Robotic guidance for percutaneous interventions |
| 561 | -- | 564 | Fujio Tajima, Kousuke Kishi, Kouji Nishizawa, Kazutoshi Kan, Hiroshi Ishii, Masakatsu G. Fujie, Takeyoshi Dohi, Ken-ichi Sudo, Shin-ichi Takamoto. A magnetic resonance compatible surgical manipulator: part of a unified support system for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease |