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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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
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author Zhong, Yongmin
Shirinzadeh, B.
Smith, J.
Gu, C.
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Shirinzadeh, B.
Smith, J.
Gu, C.
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description 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 theory of soft tissues, and thus heat conduction of mechanical load and non-rigid mechanics of motion are combined to govern the dynamics of soft tissue deformation. The mechanical load applied to a soft tissue to cause a deformation is distributed among mass points of the soft tissue according to the principle of heat conduction. A thermal–mechanical model and associated model construction algorithms are developed to describe the distribution of the mechanical load in the tissue. A heat flux-based method is established for derivation of internal forces from the distribution of the mechanical load. Real-time interactive deformation of virtual human organs with force feedback has been achieved by the proposed methodology for surgery simulation. The proposed methodology not only accommodates isotropic, anisotropic and inhomogeneous materials by simply modifying thermal conductivity constants, but it also accepts local and large-range deformation.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-409242017-01-30T14:46:45Z Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation Zhong, Yongmin Shirinzadeh, B. Smith, J. Gu, C. 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 theory of soft tissues, and thus heat conduction of mechanical load and non-rigid mechanics of motion are combined to govern the dynamics of soft tissue deformation. The mechanical load applied to a soft tissue to cause a deformation is distributed among mass points of the soft tissue according to the principle of heat conduction. A thermal–mechanical model and associated model construction algorithms are developed to describe the distribution of the mechanical load in the tissue. A heat flux-based method is established for derivation of internal forces from the distribution of the mechanical load. Real-time interactive deformation of virtual human organs with force feedback has been achieved by the proposed methodology for surgery simulation. The proposed methodology not only accommodates isotropic, anisotropic and inhomogeneous materials by simply modifying thermal conductivity constants, but it also accepts local and large-range deformation. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40924 BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS restricted
spellingShingle Zhong, Yongmin
Shirinzadeh, B.
Smith, J.
Gu, C.
Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation
title Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation
title_full Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation
title_fullStr Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation
title_full_unstemmed Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation
title_short Thermal-mechanical based Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgery Simulation
title_sort thermal-mechanical based soft tissue deformation for surgery simulation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40924