title: Physics-based real time laparoscopic electrosurgery simulation.
abstract: While physics-based modeling of electrosurgical procedures is essential for most laparoscopic simulation systems, we present such a system for the first time in this paper. We have implemented a physics-based model of electrosurgery to control the temperature distribution on the tissue as a function of time. Then, we evaluate the algorithm within a complete graphics-haptics-physics-based system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA. maciea@rpi.edu
authors.forename: Anderson
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maciel
authors.forename: Suvranu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004598:Electrosurgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface