Towards determining soft tissue properties for modelling spine surgery: current progress and challenges.
J. Paige LittleClayton AdamPublished in: Medical Biol. Eng. Comput. (2012)
Keyphrases
- soft tissue
- soft tissue deformation
- minimally invasive surgery
- surgical simulation
- medical images
- finite element
- robotic assisted
- magnetic resonance
- surgical tools
- computer assisted
- intraoperative
- maxillofacial surgery
- deformable models
- elastic properties
- image registration
- x ray images
- pattern recognition
- material properties
- virtual environment
- beating heart
- anatomical structures
- magnetic resonance imaging
- degrees of freedom
- mass spring