Adaptive techniques for real-time haptic and visual simulation of bone dissection

Bone dissection is an important component of many surgical procedures. In this paper, we discuss adaptive techniques for providing real-time haptic and visual feedback during a virtual bone dissection simulation. The simulator is being developed as a component of a training system for temporal bone surgery. We harness the difference in complexity and frequency requirements of the visual and haptic simulations by modeling the system as a collection of loosely coupled concurrent components. The haptic component exploits a multi-resolution representation of the first two moments of the bone characteristic function to rapidly compute contact forces and determine bone erosion. The visual component uses a time-critical particle system evolution method to simulate secondary visual effects, such as bone debris accumulation, blooding, irrigation, and suction.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: VR
• Authors: Marco Agus, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Gianluigi Zanetti, Antonio Zorcolo
• Keywords: Bone, Bone Dissection, Bone Dissection Simulation, Virtual Reality, VR 2003