In surgery simulation, most existing methods assume that the contact between a virtual instrument and a soft tissue model occur at a single point. However, there is a gross approximation when simulating laparoscopic procedures since the instrument shaft is used in several surgical tasks. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for modeling the collision response of a soft tissue when interacting with a volumetric virtual instrument involving both the shaft and the tip of the instrument. The proposed method generates visually coherent mesh deformations and plausible force-feedback in a real-time surgical simulator even when the mesh geometry is irregular. © Springer-Verlag 2004.
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Forest, C., Delingette, H., & Ayache, N. (2004). Surface contact and reaction force models for laparoscopic simulation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3078, 168–176. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25968-8_19
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