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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 12.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Med Robot. 2008 Jun;4(2):131–138. doi: 10.1002/rcs.185

FIGURE 6.

FIGURE 6

Needle-tissue interaction. (a) the needle is discretized into segments for collision detection; (b) the local frame of each segment is used to calculate resistance inside the tissue.