Objective "Surgeons are trained as apprentices. Some conditions are rarely encountered and surgeons will only be trained in the specific skills associated with a given situation if they come across it. At the end of their residency, it is hoped that they will have faced sufficiently many cases to be competent. This can be dangerous to the patients.If we were able to reproduce faithfully, in a virtual environment, the audio, visual and haptic experience of a surgeon as they prod, pull and incise tissue, then, surgeons would not have to train on cadavers, phantoms, or on the patients themselves.Only a few researchers in the Computational Mechanics community have attacked the mechanical problems related to surgical simulation, so that mechanical faithfulness is not on par with audiovisual. This lack of fidelity in the reproduction of surgical acts such as cutting may explain why most surgeons who tested existing simulators report that the ""sensation"" fed back to them remains unrealistic. To date, the proposers are not aware of Computational Mechanics solutions addressing, at the same time, geometrical faithfulness, material realism, evolving cuts and quality control of the solution.The measurable objectives for this research are as follows:O1:Significantly alleviate the mesh generation and regeneration burden to represent organs’ geometries, underlying tissue microstructure and cuts with sufficient accuracy but minimal user interventionO2:Move away from simplistic coarse-scale material models by deducing tissue rupture at the organ level from constitutive (e.g. damage) and contact models designed at the meso and micro scalesO3:Ensure real-time results through model order reduction coupled with the multi-scale fracture tools of O2O4:Control solution accuracy and validate against a range of biomechanics problems including real-life brain surgery interventions with the available at our collaborators’" Fields of science medical and health sciencesclinical medicinesurgerynatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiophysicsnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometrynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational sciencemultiphysics Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-SG-PE8 - ERC Starting Grant - Products and process engineering Call for proposal ERC-2011-StG_20101014 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG Address 2 avenue de l'universite 4365 Esch-sur-alzette Luxembourg See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Alfred Funk Principal investigator Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordas (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg EU contribution € 1 009 910,00 Address 2 avenue de l'universite 4365 Esch-sur-alzette See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Alfred Funk Principal investigator Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordas (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data CARDIFF UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 334 045,00 Address Newport road 30 36 CF24 0DE Cardiff See on map Region Wales East Wales Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Nick Bodycombe (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
