Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

Collaboration with Nancy School of Surgery

We are working with Nancy School of Surgery on soft tissue dissection simulation. In an effort to generate a more realistic model of tissue dissection in laparoscopic surgery we started to investigate on a novel method based on a task analysis. Nancy School of Surgery experts have defined the key features of the simulator. Initially we have chosen to model the basic geometry of this task rather than a whole laparoscopic procedure. Preliminary work has led to the development of a real time simulator performing cutting with a haptic thread at 1000Hz on a simple 2D geometry using SOFA Framework [23] .