Real-Time Haptic and Visual Simulation of Bone Dissection

—Bone dissection is an important component of many surgical procedures. In this paper, we discuss 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: VR
• Authors: Marco Agus, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Gianluigi Zanetti, Antonio Zorcolo
• Keywords: Bone Cutting Burr, Haptic Forces Evaluation, Temporal Bone Surgery, Virtual Reality, VR 2002