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Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG'01)
Accurate Surface Voxelization for Manipulating Volumetric Surfaces and Solids with Application in Simulating Musculoskeletal Surgery
Tokyo, Japan
October 16-October 18
ISBN: 0-7695-1227-5
Ming-Dar Tsai, Chung Yuan Christian University
Shyan-Bin Jou, Chung Yuan Christian University
Ming-Shium Hsieh, Taipei Medical University
Existing volumetric representations model a non- thickness surface using voxels, and thus cannot accurately manipulate topology changes in the interactions between surfaces and solids. This study describes a volume repre-sentation in which face flags and distance-levels on each voxel represent surface topology and geometry, and an object flag identifies solids. Also presented herein is a set of algorithms that voxelize solids and surfaces, check the closures of the interactions among the volumetric surfaces and solids and manipulate various operations on the solids. A surgical example, in which the procedures involved in the complex interactions between cutting surfaces and anatomic structures and various geometric and topologic manipulations on the structures, are simulated to demon-strate that these novel volume representation and algo-rithms are feasible in manipulating the interactions be-tween surfaces and solids in a volume.
Index Terms:
surface voxelization, volume modeling and manipulation, surgical simulation
Citation:
Ming-Dar Tsai, Shyan-Bin Jou, Ming-Shium Hsieh, "Accurate Surface Voxelization for Manipulating Volumetric Surfaces and Solids with Application in Simulating Musculoskeletal Surgery," pg, pp.0234, Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG'01), 2001
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