title: LR-Spring Mass model for cardiac surgical simulation.
abstract: The purpose of the research conducted was to develop a real-time surgical simulator for preoperative planning of surgery in congenital heart disease. The main problem simulating procedures on cardiac morphology is the need for a large degree of detail and simulation speed. In combination with a demand for physically realistic real-time behaviour this gives us tradeoffs not easily balanced. The LR-Spring Mass model handles these constraints by the use of domain specific knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jesper
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mosegaard
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003718:Denmark; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D013903:Thoracic Surgery