Patent ID: 8311791

Claim:
A modeling system comprising one or more computers for performing a surgical simulation, said system further comprising: a database for storing patient medical images of one or more organs of a particular patient; said database also for storing standard characteristics of said one or more organs; an image generator using one or more of said computers for executing software for generating a dynamic image of said one or more organs by utilizing said patient medical images of said one or more organs in combination with said characteristics of said one or more organs to create realistic dynamic images of said one or more organs representing the one or more organs of said particular patient; a user tool generator using one or more of said computers for executing software for generating a tool model of a user tool for dynamically interacting with said realistic dynamic images; a user input interface for accepting inputs from a user, said inputs for dynamically manipulating said user tool image for said dynamic interacting with said realistic dynamic images for simulating a medical procedure, such that said tool model is utilized by said image generator for generating an image of said tool image dynamically interacting with said realistic dynamic images based on said characteristics and said inputs for realistically simulating the medical procedure; and a display for displaying, to a user, the simulated medical procedure in real time including showing said user tool image dynamically interacting with said realistic dynamic images of said one or more organs according to said inputs.