Title :
Particles as modeling primitives for surgical simulation
Author :
House, Donald H. ; Breen, David E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Williams Coll., Williamstown, MA, USA
Abstract :
The authors provide the rationale for and report on the progress of a new particle-based method for the mechanical modeling of complex materials such as soft biological tissues. The intent is to represent a material as a cloud of microscopic particles, whose overall mechanical characteristics arise from interactions between particles. This approach differs in several important aspects from conventional finite element schemes and seems especially well suited to supporting real-time simulation models for use in surgical training
Keywords :
biomechanics; physiological models; surgery; cloud of microscopic particles; complex materials; interactions; mechanical modeling; overall mechanical characteristics; particle-based method; primitives; real-time simulation models; soft biological tissues; surgical simulation; surgical training; Biological materials; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Finite element methods; Geometry; Microscopy; Microstructure; Minimally invasive surgery; Parallel processing; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96006
