Title :
Development of a glove-type interface for data manipulation of the virtual environment in the operating room
Author :
Oda, S. ; Kyoso, M. ; Uchiyama, A. ; Takatsu, A. ; Hattori, A. ; Suzuki, N.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Sci. & Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan
fDate :
29 Oct-1 Nov 1998
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to develop a new glove interface that can manipulate many kinds of objects in virtual space by real hand movements. This glove has the same form and material as a surgical glove, and the user´s movements are unrestricted. Thus, while performing operations on a real human body, the user can control many kinds of data that are displayed in virtual space. During operations, the surgeon can handle many kinds of data, for example, synchopexia, MRI images, 3DCT images, and time sequential 3D images by using this glove
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; biomedical equipment; computerised tomography; data gloves; medical image processing; surgery; virtual reality; 3DCT images; MRI images; data manipulation; glove interface; glove-type interface; operating room; real hand movements; surgical glove; synchopexia; time sequential 3D images; virtual environment; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Data engineering; Fingers; Humans; Real time systems; Space technology; Surgery; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5164-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1998.747104
