Generalized interactions using virtual tools within the spring framework: probing, piercing, cauterizing and ablating.
We present schemes for real-time generalized interactions such as probing, piercing, cauterizing and ablating virtual tissues. These methods have been implemented in a robust, real-time (haptic rate) surgical simulation environment allowing us to model procedures including animal dissection, microsurgery, hysteroscopy, and cleft lip repair.
Center for Bioinformatics, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
Kevin
K
Montgomery
Cynthia D
CD
Bruyns
D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D010173:Palpation; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014110:Touch; D014584:User-Computer Interface