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The length and rigidity of the instruments used in minimally invasive surgery make it very difficult to handle these instruments with a high sense of touch. In this paper a novel system will be described which determines the distribution of pressures and the handling forces (X, Y and Z-axes) at the distal end of a laparoscopic forceps, represents it graphically on the PC screen and plotter, and generates tactile feedback to the finger tips of the surgeon. This system allows to measure the handling forces created during surgery and allows to transmit differences in tissue hardness directly to the finger tips of the surgeon.
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