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COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK
Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages 431-440Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2011.01.008
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Medical interactive simulation; Modelling of the heart; Haptic device
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Virtual reality-based therapy simulation meets a growing interest from the medical community due to its potential impact for the training of medical residents and the planning of therapies. However, computer models of the human anatomy are often very computationally demanding, thus incompatible with the constraints of such interactive simulations. In this paper, we propose a fast model of the cardiac electrophysiology based on an eikonal formulation implemented with an anisotropic fast marching method. We demonstrate the use of this model in the context of a simulator of radio-frequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmia from patient-specific medical imaging data. Indeed, this therapy can be very effective for patients but still suffers from a rather low success rate. Being able to test different ablation strategies on a patient-specific model can have a great clinical impact. In our setting, thanks to a haptic 3D user interface, the user can interactively measure the local extracellular potential, pace locally the myocardium or simulate the burning of cardiac tissue as done in radio-frequency ablation interventions. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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