歯学教育に向けた頭頸部触診システムと仮想患者モデルに関する研究

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This study have developed a virtual training system for maxillofacial palpation. where a trainee can touch the face of a virtual patient model by using a pen-stylus of PHANToM Omni. This paper aims to make a model which has a similar structure of a diseased part due to lymph-node cancer in order to measure the elastic information of a patient and embed it in the dynamic model of the virtual patient model. And the haptic device that enables to present both the shape and the elasticity of a diseased part has been newly developed in this paper. The brief reports of the progresses of these improvements are described.