SURGICAL PROCEDURE TRAINING SYSTEM

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a surgical procedure training system. The system comprises a patient body part simulator (2), such as a replica of a heart (5) or a part thereof, such as a mitral valve (6,7). Further, an image acquisition system (3) directed at the patient body part simulator is provided. The system also comprises an image processing system (700) configured to convert images from the image acquisition system (3) into emulation images corresponding with a specific imaging technique, such as echoscopy or echocardiography, as deployed during an actual surgical procedure on the patient body part; and an image display (4) presenting to a training surgeon images from the image acquisition system (3) and converted by the image processing system (700) into the images corresponding with the specific imaging technique.

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