Real-time soft tissue modelling for web-based surgical simulation: SurfaceChainMail.
The Web provides a useful environment for simple surgical training simulations. A combination of VRML for 3D rendering, and Java code for the simulation engine, has been used for a range of simple neurosurgical demonstrators. However the elements in these simulators are rigid, to avoid the computational complexity of deformable modelling. In this paper we describe a variation of the ChainMail technique that allows us to provide real-time deformable modelling, even in a Web browser environment on a PC. Our new algorithm, SurfaceChainMail, has been used to develop a simulator for the cutting of two layers of tissue, and separating the layers by pulling them apart.
School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. ying@comp.leeds.ac.uk
Ying
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Li
Ken
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Brodlie
Nicholas
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Phillips
D000465:Algorithms; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D020407:Internet; D008838:Microcomputers; D038361:Neuronavigation / Q000193:education*; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface