A Dynamic Data Driven Grid System for Intra-operative Image Guided Neurosurgery

Abstract. In the future, advanced biomechanical simulations of brain deformation during surgery will require access to multi-teraflop parallel hardware, supporting operating room infrastructure. This will allow surgeons to view images of intra-operative brain deformation within the strict time constraints of the surgical procedure - typically on the order of minutes, multiple times during a six or eight hour long surgery. In this paper we explore the grid infrastructure issues involved in scheduling, on-demand computing, data transfer and parallel finite element biomechanical simulation, which would guarantee that such a dynamic data driven real time application is actually feasible.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICCS
• Authors: Amitava Majumdar, Adam Birnbaum, Dong Ju Choi, Abhishek Trivedi, Simon K. Warfield, Kim Baldridge, Petr Krysl
• Keywords: Biomechanical Simulation, Brain Deformation, ICCS 2005, Intra-operative Brain Deformation