Title :
Virtual orthopedic surgery training
Author :
Sourin, Alexei ; Sourina, Olga ; Sen, Howe Tet
Author_Institution :
Moscow Inst. of Phys. & Technol., Russia
Abstract :
Medicine is one of the most promising areas for emerging computer graphics and virtual reality techniques. VR training simulators let surgeons practice on virtual body tissue and get the same feedback they would experience in performing a real operation. Hybrid VR systems permit medical practitioners to view the patient overlaid with 3D data sets derived from 3D scanners, thus providing doctors and surgeons with pseudo X-ray vision. While currently available immersive VR surgery systems usually require expensive hardware and software, we developed a desktop VR orthopedic surgery training system that can run on commonly available personal computers
Keywords :
computer based training; medical computing; microcomputer applications; orthopaedics; surgery; virtual reality; computer graphics; feedback; immersive reality surgery systems; personal computers; surgeons; training simulators; virtual body tissue; virtual orthopedic surgery training; virtual reality; Bones; Computed tomography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Orthopedic surgery; Personal communication networks; Rendering (computer graphics); Solid modeling; Spatial databases; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
