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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Needle insertion and radioactive seed implantation in human tissues: simulation and sensitivity analysis
− To facilitate training and planning for medical procedures such as prostate brachytherapy, we are developing an interactive simulation of needle insertion and radioactive seed ...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Jean Pouliot,...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Reality-based Needle Insertion Simulation for Haptic Feedback in Prostate Brachytherapy
- There is a strong need to improve the tools clinicians use for training in procedures such as prostate brachytherapy where the success rate is directly related to the clinicianâ€...
James T. Hing, Ari D. Brooks, Jaydev P. Desai
ISBI
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Compact Support Radial Basis Functions for Soft Tissue Deformation
We describe the use of compact support radial basis functions (CSRBFs) for simulation of soft tissue deformation. CSRBFs allow surface and volumetric deformations to be computed i...
Mark P. Wachowiak, Xiaogang Wang, Aaron Fenster, T...