Medical Simulation

Soft Tissue Properties and Modeling.- Experimental Observation and Modelling of Preconditioning in Soft Biological Tissues.- The Effects of Testing Environment on the Viscoelastic Properties of Soft Tissues.- Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Soft Tissue Models with Post-operative CT Scan in Maxillofacial Surgery.- Characterization of Soft-Tissue Material Properties: Large Deformation Analysis.- Design, Development, and Testing of an Automated Laparoscopic Grasper with 3-D Force Measurement Capability.- A Finite Element Study of the Influence of the Osteotomy Surface on the Backward Displacement during Exophthalmia Reduction.- Liver Vessel Parameter Estimation from Tactile Imaging Information.- A Nonlinear Finite Element Model of Soft Tissue Indentation.- Indentation for Estimating the Human Tongue Soft Tissues Constitutive Law: Application to a 3D Biomechanical Model.- Comparison of Knee Cruciate Ligaments Models Using In-vivo Step Up-Down Kinematics.- Real-Time Deformable Models.- Multigrid Integration for Interactive Deformable Body Simulation.- A Suture Model for Surgical Simulation.- Real-Time Incision Simulation Using Discontinuous Free Form Deformation.- An Interactive Parallel Multigrid FEM Simulator.- On Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) for Modelling of Organ Deformations Associated with Surgical Cuts.- Mechanical Representation of Shape-Retaining Chain Linked Model for Real-Time Haptic Rendering.- Interactive Real-Time Simulation of the Internal Limiting Membrane.- Haptic Rendering.- Haptic Display for All Degrees of Freedom of a Simulator for Flexible Endoscopy.- Surface Contact and Reaction Force Models for Laparoscopic Simulation.- A New Methodology to Characterize Sensory Interaction for Use in Laparoscopic Surgery Simulation.- A Study on the Perception of Haptics in Surgical Simulation.- Anatomical Modeling.- Image-Guided Analysis of Shoulder Pathologies: Modelling the 3D Deformation of the Subacromial Space during Arm Flexion and Abduction.-