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A Review of Mesh Generation for Medical Simulators

 

Michel Audette, Andrey Chernikov and Nikos Chrisochoides.

 

Published in Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc, in press, Chapter in Handbook of Real-World Applications in Modeling and Simulations, 2011

 

Abstract

 

Medical simulation is the application of computers to synthesizing an anatomical response to a simulated therapy. In particular, surgery simulation uses a software program to synthesize tissue response to virtual surgical tools, typically (but not exclusively) a mechanical response to cutting or manipulation. The requirements of computational efficiency and geometric decomposition motivate the need for a representation of the anatomy in terms of simple shapes, such as triangles and tetrahedra, a process, which we describe as mesh generation.