Simulating plastic surgery: From human skin tensile tests, through hyperelastic finite element models to real-time haptics

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 103, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 208-216

  Lapeer, R J ^a   Gasson, P D ^a   Karri, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explicit finite element analysis; Haptic and force feedback; Human skin; Hyperelasticity; Open surgery simulation; Programmable GPU

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN; SURGERY, PLASTIC; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 78649872750     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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