Volume manipulations for Simulating bone and joint surgery

Advanced cases of head and neck cancer involving the mandible often require surgical removal of diseased sections and subsequent replacement with donor bone. During the procedure, the surgeon must make decisions regarding ...

• Developed a dynamic computer model simulating various types of mandibular defects.
• Validated these computer models against existing clinical data extracted from a review of relevant literature.
• Demonstrated that the reconstructed ...

Existing volumetric representations model a non- thickness surface using voxels, and thus cannot accurately manipulate topology changes in the interactions between surfaces and solids. This study describes a volume repre-sentation in which face flags ...

A system for evaluating bone deformities using a 3-D model directly recovered from 2-D images and for simulating surgery is described. It derives a 3-D object representation from only two X-ray images. It also offers user-friendly simulation of bone ...