Title :
Portable virtual endoscope system with force and visual display
Author :
Ikuta, Koji ; Iritani, Koji ; Fukuyama, Junya ; Takeichi, Masaki
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., Nagoya Univ., Japan
Abstract :
A “Portable Virtual Endoscope System” (Portable VES) with haptic ability is developed. This Portable VES can present not only computer graphical images of an internal view of a virtual intestine but also reaction force through the endoscope. Unlike previous VES, the Portable VES has a simpler drive mechanism to achieve haptic ability. A large deformable dynamical model of both intestine and endoscope are formulated and implemented in the Pentium based microcomputer. Simulation and basic performance for clinical training are verified successfully by several experiments
Keywords :
computer displays; computer graphics; haptic interfaces; medical computing; physiology; virtual reality; Pentium based microcomputer; Portable VES; clinical training; computer graphical images; drive mechanism; haptic ability; internal view; large deformable dynamical model; portable virtual endoscope system; reaction force; virtual intestine; visual display; Biomedical imaging; Displays; Endoscopes; Gears; Haptic interfaces; Intestines; Medical diagnostic imaging; Rubber; Surgery; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2000. (IROS 2000). Proceedings. 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Takamatsu
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6348-5
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2000.894689
