Real-time simulation of tissue cutting based on improved mass-spring model

Surgical simulations are highly desired nowadays, since those can help surgeon trainees to practice and evaluate their surgical skills. A key element for the surgical simulation is the ability to simulate it realistic and real-time. In this paper, an effective method is proposed to achieve the reali...

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Published in2008 Asia Simulation Conference - 7th International Conference on System Simulation and Scientific Computing pp. 1035 - 1040
Main Authors Jun Hu, Zhiyong Yuan, Dengyi Zhang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2008
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Asia
Computational modeling
Scientific computing
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Summary:Surgical simulations are highly desired nowadays, since those can help surgeon trainees to practice and evaluate their surgical skills. A key element for the surgical simulation is the ability to simulate it realistic and real-time. In this paper, an effective method is proposed to achieve the realistic simulation of tissue cutting, and it is also real-time which is important to us. The method is based on an improved mass-spring model: a ldquovirtualrdquo spring is firstly introduced to ensure the realistic and real-time of the simulation, and a classic computation geometry algorithm is used to solve the problem of cutting detection, besides, the utilization of the verlet integration strengthens the real-time of the simulation as well.
ISBN:1424417864
9781424417865
DOI:10.1109/ASC-ICSC.2008.4675517