IP Library Granted Patent US 8,681,152
Granted Patent B2
US 8,681,152 · App. 12/998,797 · Granted Mar 25, 2014

Method for generating model for preoperative simulation

Inventors: Yoshinobu Kubota (Yokohama, JP); Kazuhide Makiyama (Yokohama, JP); Manabu Nagasaka (Kamakura, JP); Kentaro Takanami (Kamakura, JP); Masato Ogata (Kamakura, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Precision Co, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,681,152
App. No.
12/998,797
Granted
Mar 25, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention is directed to the provision of a method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation, wherein the method includes: a first step of constructing volume data for necessary organs by acquiring geometrical information from a medical image; a second step of manipulating the volume data to reposition and reorient an operator-designated organ to achieve a position and orientation appropriate for a surgical operation; a third step of generating a blood-vessel model, depicting a blood vessel to be joined to the designated organ, so as to match the position and orientation of the designated organ; a fourth step of generating volume data by forming a fat model of prescribed thickness around a prescribed organ contained in the earlier constructed volume data, after the blood-vessel model has been joined to the designated organ; a fifth step of thereafter meshing the organ represented by the generated volume data; a sixth step of manipulating a template model of a prescribed shape by using a template, and arranging the template model around the generated blood-vessel model; and a seventh step of generating a line-segment model based on the thus arranged template model.

Claims (34)

1. A method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation, comprising:

a first step of constructing volume data for necessary organs by acquiring geometrical information from a medical image;

a second step of manipulating said volume data to reposition and reorient an operator-designated organ to achieve a position and orientation appropriate for a surgical operation;

a third step of generating a blood-vessel model, depicting a blood vessel to be joined to said designated organ, so as to match the position and orientation of said designated organ repositioned and reoriented in said second step;

a fourth step of generating volume data by forming a fat model of prescribed thickness around a prescribed organ contained in said volume data constructed in said first step, after said blood-vessel model generated in said third step has been joined to said designated organ; and

a fifth step of meshing, after said fourth step, the organ represented by said generated volume data.

2. A method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation, comprising:

a first step of constructing volume data for necessary organs by acquiring geometrical information from a medical image;

a second step of manipulating said volume data to reposition and reorient an operator-designated organ to achieve a position and orientation appropriate for a surgical operation;

a third step of generating a blood-vessel model, depicting a blood vessel to be joined to said designated organ, so as to match the position and orientation of said designated organ repositioned and reoriented in said second step;

a fourth step of generating volume data by forming a fat model of prescribed thickness around a prescribed organ contained in said volume data constructed in said first step, after said blood-vessel model generated in said third step has been joined to said designated organ;

a fifth step of meshing, after said fourth step, the organ represented by said generated volume data;

a sixth step of manipulating a template model of a prescribed shape by using a template, and arranging said template model around said generated blood-vessel model; and

a seventh step of generating a line-segment model based on said arranged template model.

3. A method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation, comprising:

a first step of constructing volume data for necessary organs by acquiring geometrical information from a medical image;

a second step of manipulating said volume data to reposition and reorient an operator-designated organ to achieve a position and orientation appropriate for a surgical operation;

a third step of generating a blood-vessel model, depicting a blood vessel to be joined to said designated organ, so as to match the position and orientation of said designated organ repositioned and reoriented in said second step;

a fourth step of generating volume data by forming a fat model of prescribed thickness around a prescribed organ contained in said volume data constructed in said first step, after said blood-vessel model generated in said third step has been joined to said designated organ;

a fifth step of meshing, after said fourth step, the organ represented by said generated volume data;

a sixth step of manipulating a template model of a prescribed shape by using a template, and arranging said template model around said generated prescribed organ model; and

a seventh step of generating, based on said arranged template model, a membrane model that has a longitudinally extending line-segment model and laterally-connected information of said line-segment model.

4. A method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said blood-vessel model is generated by one of the following methods:

the method in which a portion where said blood vessel was originally connected is geometrically extended and connected;

the method in which said blood vessel is converted into a spring model, and simulation is performed; and

the method in which said blood vessel is modeled by a finite-element model, and deformation simulation is performed using a finite-element method.

5. A method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said blood-vessel model is generated by one of the following methods:

the method in which a portion where said blood vessel was originally connected is geometrically extended and connected;

the method in which said blood vessel is converted into a spring model, and simulation is performed; and

the method in which said blood vessel is modeled by a finite-element model, and deformation simulation is performed using a finite-element method.

6. A method for generating a model for a preoperative simulation as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said blood-vessel model is generated by one of the following methods:

the method in which a portion where said blood vessel was originally connected is geometrically extended and connected;

the method in which said blood vessel is converted into a spring model, and simulation is performed; and

the method in which said blood vessel is modeled by a finite-element model, and deformation simulation is performed using a finite-element method.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF ASSIGNEE Recorded Feb 22, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI PRECISION CO., LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI PRECISION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 062821/0525 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2011
From: KUBOTA, YOSHINOBU; MAKIYAMA, KAZUHIDE; NAGASAKA, MANABU; TAKANAMI, KENTARO; OGATA, MASATO
To: MITSUBISHI PRECISION CO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 026450/0413 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-307116 · Dec 2, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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