title: Real time 3D simulation for nose surgery and automatic individual prosthesis design.
abstract: This paper presents an intuitive nose surgery planning and simulation system, using 3D laser scan image and lateral X-ray image, to provide high quality prediction of the postoperative appearance, and design the patient specific prosthesis model automatically. After initial registration, the internal surface of soft tissue at the nose region was generated by the statistical data for soft tissue thickness adapted by the individual thickness information from the X-ray image. Then, the sketch contour of the 3D scan data on the lateral X-ray image was modified manually or adjusted automatically according to some aesthetic statistical data, to drive the simulation in real time by the state-of-the-art Laplacian surface deformation method. When satisfied with the 3D postoperative appearance, the deformation was mapped to the internal surface of soft tissue, and the change before and after simulation was utilized to generate the patient specific prosthesis model automatically. The surgeons who used the system confirmed that this planning system is attractive and has potential for daily clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000, China.
authors.forename: Jing-xiao
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sheng-hui
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Xing-hao
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chong-xiang
authors.initials: CX
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Yi-ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Xiu-hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D009666:Nose / Q000601:surgery*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants