title: Enhancing the visual realism of hysteroscopy simulation.
abstract: Visualization is a very important part of a high fidelity surgical simulator. Due to modern computer graphics hardware, which offers more and more features and processing power, it is possible to extend the standard OpenGL rendering methods with advanced visualization techniques to achieve highly realistic rendering in real-time. For an easy and efficient use of these new capabilities, a stand-alone graphics engine has been implemented, which exploits these advanced rendering techniques and provides an interface in order to ensure the interoperability with a software framework for surgical simulators.
authors.affiliation: Inst. for Applied Information Technology, ZHW Winterthur, Switzerland. bachofen@vision.ee.ethz.ch
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bachofen
authors.forename: János
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zátonyi
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harders
authors.forename: Gábor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Székely
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Früh
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thaler
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D013557:Switzerland; D014584:User-Computer Interface