title: Virtual 3D cutting for bone segment extraction in maxillofacial surgery planning.
abstract: An important step toward our main goal of a completely computer-based maxillofacial surgical planning system is the availability of tools for the surgeon to define bone segments from skull and jaw bones. We have developed an easy-to-handle user interface that employs visual and force-feedback devices to define subvolumes of a patient's volume dataset. This interface is a main component of our maxillofacial surgical planning tool MeVisTo-Jaw [1]. The defined subvolumes together with their spatial arrangements lead to an operation plan.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Siebert
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Faulkner
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krauss
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lwowsky
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tolxdorff
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007569:Jaw Abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D003765:Models, Dental; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014584:User-Computer Interface