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Georg Schlöndorff – Vater der „computerassistierten Chirurgie“

Georg Schlöndorff—the father of computer-assisted surgery

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Georg Schlöndorff (1931–2011) entwickelte in seiner Zeit als Ordinarius für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde am Klinikum der RWTH Aachen 1985 die Idee der computerassistierten Chirurgie. Mithilfe von Ingenieuren und Physikern der RWTH Aachen gelang ihm innerhalb von nur 2 Jahren die Umsetzung vom Konzept bis zum funktionsfähigen Prototyp, der erstmals im Frühjahr 1987 im Operationssaal bei einer Schädelbasisoperation eingesetzt werden konnte. In den Folgejahren wurde das Konzept auf Eingriffe in den Gebieten der Orbitachirurgie, Neurochirurgie, Traumatologie des Mittelgesichts und auf die Brachytherapie solider Tumoren im Kopf- und Halsbereich ausgeweitet. Auch die technische Weiterentwicklung mit dem Einsatz berührungslos messender Navigationssysteme auf der Basis optischer Positionserfassung fand bereits in Aachen ihren Ausgangspunkt. Die grafische Darstellung mit 3 orthogonalen Schnittebenen, so wie sie bei den meisten aktuellen Navigationssystemen derzeit noch üblich ist, wurde von Georg Schlöndorff initiiert. Auch nach seiner Emeritierung im Jahre 1996 hat Georg Schlöndorff seine Vision der computerassistierten Chirurgie weiterverfolgt und durch technische Innovationen wie den Einsatz des Computational-Fluid-Dynamics (CFD) bereichert.

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Georg Schlöndorff (1931–2011) developed the idea of computer-assisted surgery (CAS) during his time as professor and chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Aachen, Germany. In close cooperation with engineers and physicists, he succeeded in translating this concept into a functional prototype that was applied in live surgery in the operating theatre. The first intervention performed with this image-guided navigation system was a skull base surgical procedure 1987. During the following years, this concept was extended to orbital surgery, neurosurgery, mid-facial traumatology, and brachytherapy of solid tumors in the head and neck region. Further technical developments of this first prototype included touchless optical positioning and the computer vision concept with three orthogonal images, which is still common in contemporary navigation systems. During his time as emeritus professor from 1996, Georg Schlöndorff further pursued his concept of CAS by developing technical innovations such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

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Mösges, R. Georg Schlöndorff – Vater der „computerassistierten Chirurgie“. HNO 64, 630–634 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00106-016-0222-y

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