4.6 Specific Products and Projects
- AESOP 1000
- ANALYZE
- Anatomy Lesson Prototype.
- Anesthesiology Training Simulator System
- ARTMA (University of Vienna)
- Automated
Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning (AESOP)
- Boston DynamicsVirtual
Surgery
- Training Simulators: Boston Dynamics' open surgery anastomosis
Brainbench
- CARS 98 Computert-aided Robotic Surgery Project
- CAVE
- CHARM: omprehensive
Human Animation Resource Model
DETOUR:Brain Deconstruction Area Ahead - Dextroscope
- Endoscopic navigation system
- ESPRIT ProjectCHARM:Comprehensive Human Animation Resource Model
- Evaluating 3D task performance for fish tank virtual worlds
- Eye Surgery Simulator
- GaTech:Virtual Environments and Real-time Deformations for Surgery Simulation
- Hepatic
SurgerySimulator
Interaction Techniques for a Virtual Workspace- Interactive Periodontology
- EC funded research project
- JavaMan
Neurological Visualisation: Javaman
- A nice interactive demonstration from the Neurovisualisation Laboratory
at the University of Virginia
- KISMET(Karlsruhe):
Medical Simulation and Surgery Training
- Look and Feel: Haptic Interaction for Biomedicine
MINERVA neursurgical robot- MISTvr - Minimally Invasive
Surgical Training and Evaluation System
- Navigation system for endoscopic sinus surgery
- Networked
Virtual Reality Medical Tutor
- ORBIT: Modeling the HumanEye and Orbit
- Phobia Project - Gatech
- Phobia Project - University of Michigan
- Project Hippocrates HIgh PerfOrmance Computing for Robot-AssisTEd Surgery
- Radionics' Stereoplan
- Responsive
Workbench
- Skull-base Surgery Simulator
- Surgical Manipulator
- Surgical Simulation Toolkit
- Training system for endoscopic surgery
- Virtual Arthroscopic Knee Surgery Simulator
- Virtual Reality Therapy VRT
- Virtual Body Project
- Virtual Brain Project
- Virtual Environments and Real-time Deformations for Surgery Simulation
- Virtual Human from EAI
- Virtual Presence MISTvr -Minimally Invasive Surgical Training and Evaluation System
- Virtual Workbench
- Visible Human Project
- Visualization Toolkit (free)
- VIVIAN - Stereotactic tumour neurosurgery planning application
- VMSDProjects - The Responsive Workbench
- VOXEL-MAN
Voxelman (University of Hamburg), from VH data
VOXEL-MANJunior: Brain and Skull- VR Med: COHIS VRML Repository: Virtual Reality Medical Models
- VREPAR Project
The aim of the Visible Human Project was to create a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The Visible Human Male data was obtained from a convicted murderer after his execution. This data is available free.
Unfortunately, the method of obtaining the data leaves much to be desired. They should have done all the scanning before his execution. Because they scanned him after death, they couldn't freeze immediately, and those scans took a bit too long. With death, all the vascular material and fluid loses pressure, and things start to collapse. The brain is held together by the Cerebral Spinal Fluid that surrounds it. When the fluid loses pressure, it caves in. So that data is quite useless, according to some experts on neuroanatomy. The cryomacrotome (the cuts and photographs).has to be done after death. But before death, they should have scanned him with high doses of x-ray, injecting him with contrasting agents that cannot be used for normal patients, but would not have been a problem in his terminal case. They should then have killed him by letting him freeze to death, which is not unpleasant. But then, the data would have been that of a man crouching, instead of the more dignified position he is now remembered for.
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