Cellular neural network modelling of soft tissue dynamics for surgical simulation.

Journal: Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Currently, the mechanical dynamics of soft tissue deformation is achieved by numerical time integrations such as the explicit or implicit integration; however, the explicit integration is stable only under a small time step, whereas the implicit integration is computationally expensive in spite of the accommodation of a large time step.

Authors

  • Jinao Zhang
    School of Engineering, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia.
  • Yongmin Zhong
    School of Engineering, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia.
  • Julian Smith
    Lecturer in Pharmaceutics, University of South Wales, School of Applied Sciences, Pontypridd, CF37 4AT, UK.
  • Chengfan Gu
    School of Engineering, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia.