Computational Analysis of Surgical Tool-Brain Tissue Interaction

Abstract

This paper presents new surgical tool-brain tissue interactions models in three directional format considering the linear elastic, hyperelastic and viscoelastic properties of a brain tissue which are characterized by conducting stress-strain simulation on brain model. Brain tissues properties like a Neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin Model and Prony Series are considered. Effects of adopting non-linear properties are discussed. After optimizing models in COMSOL Muiltiphysics 4.0, the models show that the brain tissues contain non-linear characteristic and the coefficients of the models are available to Open Inventor in order to initiate a visio-haptic simulation which will be used for doctors and surgical operation manipulators.