Recent improvements in SPE3D: a VR-based surgery planning environment

Marcin Witkowski; Robert Sitnik; Nico Verdonschot

doi:10.1117/12.2041445

28 February 2014 Recent improvements in SPE3D: a VR-based surgery planning environment

Marcin Witkowski, Robert Sitnik, Nico Verdonschot

Proceedings Volume 9012, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2014; 90120E (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041445
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

SPE3D is a surgery planning environment developed within TLEMsafe project [1] (funded by the European Commission FP7). It enables the operator to plan a surgical procedure on the customized musculoskeletal (MS) model of the patient's lower limbs, send the modified model to the biomechanical analysis module, and export the scenario's parameters to the surgical navigation system. The personalized patient-specific three-dimensional (3-D) MS model is registered with 3-D MRI dataset of lower limbs and the two modalities may be visualized simultaneously. Apart from main planes, any arbitrary MRI cross-section can be rendered on the 3-D MS model in real time. The interface provides tools for: bone cutting, manipulating and removal, repositioning muscle insertion points, modifying muscle force, removing muscles and placing implants stored in the implant library. SPE3D supports stereoscopic viewing as well as natural inspection/manipulation with use of haptic devices. Alternatively, it may be controlled with use of a standard computer keyboard, mouse and 2D display or a touch screen (e.g. in an operating room). The interface may be utilized in two main fields. Experienced surgeons may use it to simulate their operative plans and prepare input data for a surgical navigation system while student or novice surgeons can use it for training.

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Marcin Witkowski, Robert Sitnik, and Nico Verdonschot "Recent improvements in SPE3D: a VR-based surgery planning environment", Proc. SPIE 9012, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2014, 90120E (28 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041445

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