Emulation of surgical fluid interactions in real-time
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics, Scientific Computing and Simulation
- Keywords
- Medical Simulation, Computer Graphics, Parallel Algorithms, Stereo Vision, Virtual Reality, Haptic Interfaces, Computer Aided Instruction, Data Processing, Parallel Processing
- Copyright
- © 2018 Stredney et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Emulation of surgical fluid interactions in real-time. PeerJ Preprints 6:e3334v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3334v2
Abstract
The surgical skills required to successfully maintain hemostasis, the control of operative blood, requires considerable deliberate practice. Hemostasis requires the deft orchestration of bi-dexterous tool manipulation. We present our approach to computationally emulate both irrigation and bleeding associated with neurotologic surgical technique. The overall objective is to provide a visually plausible, three dimensional, real-time simulation of bleeding and irrigation in a virtual otologic simulator system. The results present a unique simulation environment for deliberate study and practice.
Author Comment
We updated Figure 5 to be a line graph. We clarified text defining the SDF creation. We updated the references to be in a more uniform format.
Supplemental Information
Dataset containing the performance data for Figure 5
Figure 5: Calculation times for SDF at different resolutions using four different graphics cards
The vertical axis is time in seconds with a logarithmic scale; the horizontal axis is the size of the width dimension of a volumetric data.
