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One of the most difficult problem in surgical simulation consists in simulating the removal of soft tissue. This paper proposes an efficient method for locally refining and removing tetrahedra in a realtime surgical simulator. One of the key feature of this algorithm is that the tetrahedral mesh remains a 3-manifold volume during the cutting simulation. Furthermore, our approach minimizes the number of generated tetrahedra while trying to optimize their shape quality. The removal of tetrahedra is performed with a strategy which combines local refinement with the removal of neighboring tetrahedra when a topological singularity is found.
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Forest, C., Delingette, H., Ayache, N. (2002). Cutting Simulation of Manifold Volumetric Meshes. In: Dohi, T., Kikinis, R. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention — MICCAI 2002. MICCAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45787-9_30
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