Mechanical modeling of a beating heart for a cardiac palpation training system

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 463-479

  Tokuyasu, Tatsushi ^a   Oota, Shin'ichiro ^a   Tokuyama, Toru ^a   Asami, Ken'ichi ^a   Kitamura, Tadashi ^a   Sakaguchi, Gen'ichi ^b   Koyama, Tadaaki ^b   Komeda, Masashi ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac palpation; Image processing; Surgical planning; Ventricular plastic surgery; Virtual heart

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SURGERY;

PLASTIC SURGERY;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 0042381883     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685530360675497     Document Type: Article

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