Virtual 3D cutting for bone segment extraction in maxillofacial surgery planning.
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.
Neumann
P
P
Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Siebert
D
D
Faulkner
G
G
Krauss
M
M
Schulz
A
A
Lwowsky
C
C
Tolxdorff
T
T
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