Virtual Reality Simulation of High Tibial Osteotomy for Medical Training

Figure 1

Configuration of the proposed surgical simulation system. It can process I/O of morphable haptic controllers and others. The application program calculates the reactions of the patient, surgeon, and surgical tool models, thereby performing the virtual operation. The red line means the data flow when using the morphable haptic controller, and the blue line means the data flow when using a haptic controller provided with the plug-in by the vendor. The black line is the data flow common to both types of haptic controllers.