Real-time rendering of drug injection and interactive simulation of vessel deformation using GPU

Abstract

Developing patient specific model for the simulation of chemotherapy drug injection is important in medical application. This paper proposed a two-phase fluidic method to simulate chemotherapy drug injection and an improved lumped element method to simulate deformation of vessel at real-time by using GPU for general computing. Firstly, a three-dimensional (3-D) model of hepatic vessels is reconstructed from clinical CT-images using multi-layer method. A 3-D thinning algorithm based on Valence Driven Spatial Median (VDSM) is applied to generate unit-width skeleton of the vessel tree. The two-phase flow simulation of drug injection is based on Hagen-Poiseuille model by introducing a friction factor using bubbly flow Reynolds number. The improved lumped element method achieves good simulation realism at high computational speed to simulate deformable object. Real-time rendering and interaction of vessel deformation, self collision, and surface tearing has been realized and demonstrated in a virtual experiment. © 2013 IEEE.