SOFTWARE TOOL FOR ANALYSIS OF VOXEL HUMAN BODY MODELS
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https://doi.org/10.14311/CTJ.2021.1.09Abstract
The paper describes a software tool created to inspect the anatomical structures of any segmented voxel model of the human body for use in numerical analyses of the interaction of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation with a metallic implant. A voxel model is a three-dimensional representation of the human body model in the form of a numerical array of indices that identify each element as belonging to a particular tissue, organ, or anatomical part. The process of virtual implant placement within these models while maintaining their anatomical limitations is complex and time-consuming. We have created a software tool in the MATLAB environment to simplify and speed up this process. As a representative case, we used the developed tool to identify three implantation sites of pacing electrodes within the cardiovascular system of the available AustinMan and AustinWoman models.
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