Head Mounted Displays for Medical Use

Author

Keller, Kurtis ; State, Andrei ; Fuchs, Henry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Volume

4

Issue

4

fYear

2008

Firstpage

468

Lastpage

472

Abstract

Head Mounted Displays have been used in various forms to assist surgeons and other medical personnel to support and improve visualization of the work site. Historically, many of these were of inadequate resolution, bulky, cave-like and heavy and they, deservedly, received limited acceptance. Recent availability of high-resolution displays, lighter structures and the various see-though designs that merge both real world and registered synthetic imagery have significantly increased the benefits of these devices for the medical community.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical imaging; helmet mounted displays; surgery; biomedical equipment; biomedical imaging; computer interface human factors; high-resolution displays; medical head mounted displays; surgeon; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Cameras; Computer displays; Head; High-resolution imaging; Human factors; Medical diagnostic imaging; Minimally invasive surgery; Personnel; Biomedical equipment; biomedical imaging; computer interface human factors; display human factors; head; medical information systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Display Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1551-319X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JDT.2008.2001577

Filename

4670082