A topologically faithful, tissue-guided, spatially varying meshing strategy for computing patient-specific head models for endoscopic pituitary surgery simulation
Authors:
M. A. Audette a;
H. Delingette b;
A. Fuchs c;
O. Burgert a;
K. Chinzei d
| Affiliations: | a Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery - ICCAS, Leipzig, Germany |
| b INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France | |
| c Kf 2 Strategy GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| d AIST, Tsukuba, Japan |
DOI:
10.1080/10929080601167413
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6 issues per year
Subject:
Surgery;
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Previously published as:
Journal of Image Guided Surgery
(1522-712X)
until 1996
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Date of change: 2009
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Abstract
This paper presents a method for tessellating tissue boundaries and their interiors, given as input a map consisting of relevant tissue classes of the head, in order to produce anatomical models for finite-element-based simulation of endoscopic pituitary surgery. Our surface meshing method is based on the simplex model, which is initialized by duality from the topologically accurate results of the Marching Cubes algorithm, and which affords explicit control over mesh scale, while using tissue information to adhere to relevant boundaries. Our mesh scale strategy is spatially varying, based on the distance to a central point or linearized surgical path. The tetrahedralization stage also features a spatially varying mesh scale, consistent with that of the surface mesh.
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