A topologically faithful, tissue-guided, spatially varying meshing strategy for computing patient-specific head models for endoscopic pituitary surgery simulation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3765 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 178-188

  Audette, M A ^a   Delingette, H ^a   Fuchs, A ^a   Astley, O ^a   Chinzei, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; TISSUE; TOPOLOGY;

ANATOMICAL MODELS; ENDOSCOPIC PITUITARY SURGERY; MARCHING CUBES ALGORITHMS; TETRAHEDRALIZATION;

ENDOSCOPY;

EID: 33646713893     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11569541_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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