Video n. 97

Real-time haptic and visual simulation of bone dissection

Marco Agus, Fabio Bettio, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Gianluigi Zanetti, and Aantonio Zorcolo

Presented at: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, Conference held in Orlando, FL, USA, March 24-28, 2002.

  • Date: 09/2001
  • Duration: 00:04:25
  • Production: CRS4 - D
  • Master: CD097 #4
  • Encoding: PAL
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    Abstract

    Bone dissection is an important component of many surgical procedures. In this video, we demonstrate a haptic and visual implementation of a bone cutting burr, that it 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. These results were obtained within the framework of the European Union IERAPSI project (EU-IST-1999-12175).