Simulation of the deformation of skin using RC-LEM and
its application to the medical training system

Nobuhiko TAMURA *1), Norimichi TSUMURA *1), Miyake YOICHI *1), Shinichi OKAZUMI*2) ,
Masahiro TANABE *3)
*1 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University
*2 Department. of. Academic. Surgery Graduate. School. of. MedicineCChiba. University
*3 Chief, Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education Center, Chiba University Hospita

Medcal Imaging Technology, Vol.22, No.1, pp.35-40 (2004)

Abstract
In this paper, we propose an analytic deformation model of skin. We applied our method to the medical training system for central venous injection which is a part of central venous catheter (CVC) placement. The training system renders a human body with haptic interaction using PHANToM haptic device. In such VR system, it is important to synchronize the visual representation with haptic interaction. Therefore, it is need to deform the skin when it is touched. A number of researches have been done in animation of deformable bodies. However, they are usually computationally intensive, especially for the large polygons. We propose C-LEM using approximate solution of base equation in LEM which is proposed by Remis. B et al to exclude the computation of liner system. The parameter of the proposed model was determined by minimizing the error between shapes of the model and measured.

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