Toward the Simulation of the Strain of Female Pelvic Organs

Author

Bellemare, M.-E. ; Pirro, N. ; Marsac, L. ; Durieux, O.

Author_Institution

Domaine Univ. de St Jerome, Marseille

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

2752

Lastpage

2755

Abstract

Surgical simulators have undergone a significant development, especially since the rise of mini-invasive surgery. The main simulators of digestive surgery have been developed for solid organs such as the liver and spleen. Studies relating to soft tissues like the pelvic organs are rare. The aim of this work was to create a model of female pelvis that will be used as a basis for the development of a patient specific pelvic simulator. A dynamic MRI acquisition is used to evaluate and to set the simulation model.

Keywords

biological organs; biomechanics; biomedical MRI; digital simulation; image segmentation; medical image processing; physiological models; surgery; dynamic MRI acquisition; female pelvic organs; image segmentation; miniinvasive surgery; patient specific pelvic strain simulator; surgical simulators; Biological tissues; Capacitive sensors; Diseases; Floors; Image segmentation; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pelvis; Solid modeling; Surgery; Computer Simulation; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Models, Anatomic; Pelvis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352898

Filename

4352898