Abstract
Realistic modeling of soft tissue deformation has been recognized as an essential requirement for virtual surgical simulators. As a consequence, the constitutive model is crucial for modeling soft tissue deformation. In this paper, the significance and characteristics of soft tissue deformation in virtual surgery simulation studies are introduced and analyzed its challenges. We have been focusing on investigating the constitutive relations in the soft tissue mechanical models: viscoelastic models and hyper-elastic models. Moreover, some techniques are given to determine and optimize model parameters through biomechanical experiments. Finally, based on the existing constitutive model, a novel notion for optimizing the soft tissue deformation constitutive model is proposed. The contribution of this paper is to provide theoretical guidance for the simulation of soft tissue deformation in the virtual surgery simulation system and to supply various practical suggestions for developing new constitutive models in the future.
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