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- From: ARTMAUSA@CC.UTAH.EDU
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: APPS: VR and medicine
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 16:50:12 GMT
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- Jonathan,
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- I am interested how you define VR in medicine.
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- We are working on a system to combine live video images with any kind
- of medical image data and also with 3D sensor data. It can be used for
- analyzing the motion of the human body, but also for 3D monitoring of
- endoscopic surgery. The basic idea is simple, we visualize any object
- (surgical instrument, part of the body) where you can attach a 3D
- sensor. We do not use a HUD, so it is not the immersive experience.
- But as we track the video camera we could track the head movement as
- well.
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- Michael Truppe
- artmausa@cc.utah.edu
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