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Real-time Haptic and Visual Simulation of Bone Dissection

Marco Agus, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Gianluigi Zanetti, and Antonio Zorcolo

February 2003

Abstract

Bone dissection is an important component of many surgical procedures. In this paper, we discuss a haptic and visual simulation of a bone cutting burr, that is being developed as a component of a training system for temporal bone surgery. We use a physically motivated model to describe the burr bone interaction, that includes haptic forces evaluation, the bone erosion process and the resulting debris. The current implementation, directly operating on a voxel discretization of patient-specific 3D CT and MR imaging data, is efficient enough to provide real-time feedback on a low-end multi processing PC platform.

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Marco Agus, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Gianluigi Zanetti, and Antonio Zorcolo. Real-time Haptic and Visual Simulation of Bone Dissection. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 12(1): 110-122, February 2003.

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@Article{Agus:2003:RTH,
    author = {Marco Agus and Andrea Giachetti and Enrico Gobbetti and Gianluigi Zanetti and Antonio Zorcolo},
    title = {Real-time Haptic and Visual Simulation of Bone Dissection},
    journal = {Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments},
    volume = {12},
    number = {1},
    pages = {110--122},
    month = {February},
    year = {2003},
    abstract = { Bone dissection is an important component of many surgical procedures. In this paper, we discuss a haptic and visual simulation of a bone cutting burr, that is being developed as a component of a training system for temporal bone surgery. We use a physically motivated model to describe the burr bone interaction, that includes haptic forces evaluation, the bone erosion process and the resulting debris. The current implementation, directly operating on a voxel discretization of patient-specific {3D} CT and MR imaging data, is efficient enough to provide real-time feedback on a low-end multi processing PC platform.},
    url = {http://vic.crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/bib-page.cgi?id='Agus:2003:RTH'},
}