Abstract
The medical insertion treatments on cancer infected liver seem to be very effective because of low invasion for patients. Planning for insertion procedure is difficult because the interaction between needle and soft tissue become complicated and the liver may deform largely under the influence of such gravity, cancer, position of needle and so on. It is of significant to grasp natural properties and deformations of liver during medical needle insertion. In this study, viscoelastic material properties are measured by experiments and constitutive equation is formulated based on the experimental results. Then a liver is modeled by finite elements made from the sliced MRI images. 3-Dimensional needle insertion procedures are simulated by quasi-static analysis assuming friction between the needle and soft tissue and conditions of tear-off elements. From the numerical results by the proposed simulation method, it is found that some navigation of the needle insertion is necessary to hit the cancer correctly.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 43-49 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Publication status | Published - 2007 Dec 1 |
Event | 5th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMED 2007 - Innsbruck, Austria Duration: 2007 Feb 14 → 2007 Feb 16 |
Conference
Conference | 5th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMED 2007 |
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Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Innsbruck |
Period | 07/2/14 → 07/2/16 |
Keywords
- Liver modeling
- Needle insertion
- Strain energy
- Viscoelasticity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering