title: 3D Real-time FEM based guide wire simulator with force feedback.
abstract: Minimally invasive surgical techniques using catheter is now used in many procedures. Development of surgical training of such procedures requires real-time simulation of tool-organ interaction. In such processes, each subsequent step of interaction would be based on the current configuration of the surgical tool (guidewire in this case), leading to development of techniques to solve and visualize the configuration of tool at every time step. This paper presents a Finite Element (FEM) based approach to simulate the tool-organ interaction.
authors.affiliation: Virtual Reality Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. {sbhat,crmehta,crdsouza,kesh}@eng.buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Suraj
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhat
authors.forename: Chandresh
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: Clive
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: D'Souza
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kesavadas
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000193:education*; D014584:User-Computer Interface