IERAPSI. Petrous bone surgical simulation platform

Abstract

This Report has been prepared in fulfilment of Deliverable D4.2, required as a result of Work Package 4 (Real time physically based surgical simulators) of the EU Framework V Project IERAPSI, An Integrated Environment for the Rehearsal and Planning of Surgical Interventions (IST-1999-12175) Deliverable D4.2 relates to the Petrous bone surgical simulation platform, the second and last of the two main expected results of Work Package 4. The present document provides a technical description of the software system produced. The report concludes with a bibliography of cited reference work. An accompanying video (available on the deliverable CD-ROM) further illustrates the petrous bone surgical simulation platform with live sequences comparing a real and a simulated surgical procedure performed on the temporal bone.