A haptic VR milling surgery simulator--using high-resolution CT-data.

A Haptic and Virtual Reality Temporal Bone Surgery Simulator

The work presented here describes the development of a surgical training for the milling process in temporal bone surgery. The system will be used to educate and train surgeons to do simulation of complicated skull bone operations, such as removal of cancer tumors. The skull bone data is taken from a CT-scan and visualized using a modified Marching cubes algorithm. Different haptic rendering al...

A Haptic and Virtual Reality Skull Bone Surgery Simulator

The work presented in this paper gives an introduction to the development of a simulator system based on a virtual reality representation of the human skull, from which both haptic and visual feedback is generated to simulate and animate the milling process in skull bone surgery. The system will be used to educate and train surgeons to do complicated skull bone operations, such as removal of ca...

Haptic and Visual Simulation of a Material Cutting Process A Study Focused on Bone Surgery and the Use of Simulators for Education and Training

A prototype of a haptic and virtual reality simulator has been developed for simulation of the bone milling and material removal process occurring in several operations, e.g. temporal bone surgery or dental milling. The milling phase of an operation is difficult, safety critical and very time consuming. Reduction of operation time by only a few percent would in the long run save society large e...

Multipoint Collision Detection Algorithm for Bone Milling and Drilling in a Haptic VR Surgery Simulator

Haptic Milling Simulation in Six Degrees-of-Freedom With Application to Surgery in Stiff Tissue

The research presented in this thesis describes a substantial part of the design of a prototypical surgical training simulator. The results are intended to be applied in future simulators used to educate and train surgeons for bone milling operations. In earlier work we have developed a haptic bone milling surgery simulator prototype based on three degrees-of-freedom force feedback. The contrib...