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Technological innovations of the twentieth century have provided medicine and surgery with new tools for education and therapy definition. Thus, by combining Medical Imaging and Virtual Reality, patient-specific applications providing preoperative surgical simulation have become possible.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the French National League against Cancer, the Alsace Region, OSEO Anvar and the French Research Ministry for financial support; their industrial partner, Karl Storz, for providing a complete force-feedback system at no cost; the research and development teams of IRCAD and all medical partners who provided the medical images of patients; Afshin Gangi and Catherine Roy, from the Radiology Department of the University Hospital of Strasbourg; and finally, the entire digestive and endocrine surgical team of Prof. Marescaux, in particular, Prof. Didier Mutter, Prof. Joël Leroy, and Dr. Michel Vix.

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Soler, L., Marescaux, J. Patient-specific Surgical Simulation. World J Surg 32, 208–212 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-007-9329-3

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