Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation

Soft tissue deformation is of great importance to virtual reality-based surgery simulation. This paper presents a new methodology for the modeling of soft tissue deformation. This methodology converts soft tissue deformation into thermal–mechanical interaction according to the continuum mixture theo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhong, Yongmin, Shirinzadeh, B., Smith, J., Gu, C.
Format: Journal Article
Published: BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40924