[Bone drilling simulation by three-dimensional imaging].
The three-dimensional display technique has a wide range of medical applications. Pre-operative planning is one typical application: in orthopedic surgery, three-dimensional image processing has been used very successfully. We have employed this technique in pre-operative planning for orthopedic surgery, and have developed a simulation system for bone-drilling. Positive results were obtained by pre-operative rehearsal; when a region of interest is indicated by means of a mouse on the three-dimensional image displayed on the CRT, the corresponding region appears on the slice image which is displayed simultaneously. Consequently, the status of the bone-drilling is constantly monitored. In developing this system, we have placed emphasis on the quality of the reconstructed three-dimensional images, on fast processing, and on the easy operation of the surgical planning simulation.
Suto
Y
Y
Furuhata
K
K
Kojima
T
T
Kurokawa
T
T
Kobayashi
M
M
D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed