Creating a Human Phantom for the Virtual Human Program

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Creating a Human Phantom for the Virtual Human Program

What is the Virtual Human?

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Goal: Scalable, NURBS Phantom

Generic Study: Blunt Trauma to the Thorax

What are NURBS?

Step 1: Automatic Segmentation of the Visible Human Data

Segment Some Organs by Hand

Step 2: Create Scalable NURBS Phantom

Rhino Screen View of Lung

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Step 3: Create FE Phantom from NURBS Phantom

Views of Virtual Human FE phantom

Views of Virtual Human FE phantom

Advantages of NURBS

Difficulties Encountered with NURBS

Simulations using ABAQUS: Generic Study

Other Views of the Generic Study

Uses of the VH Phantoms

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Conclusions

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Author: Richard C. Ward

Email: rwd@ornl.gov

Home Page: http://www.ornl.gov/~rwd/home.html