Re: APPS: VR and Medicine?

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From: Robert Jacobson
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:41

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In article <1huav5INN6ts@shelley.u.washington.edu> Andy Kossowsky
<AKOSSOWSKY@TURBO.kean.edu> writes:

>There was a TV news segment on not to long ago about how some medical
>schools have started using VR to train surgeons in laparoscopic
>surgery because of the high demand and high accident rate for this
>type of procedure.

A small Seattle firm, Ixion, Inc., creates computer simulations of
endoscopic procedures for students working on robot "patients."  You
enter the "cut" made in the body and as your endoscope cruises the
patient's innards, you see a computer generated image of how it would
be in a real live human being.  Very creative, if a bit morbid.

Bob

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