Visualization and planning of neurosurgical interventions with straight access
IPCAI'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information processing in computer-assisted interventions
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Technological advances in computers, diagnosticimaging, medical physics, biomedical engineering, andapplied mathematics are the major driving forces indiagnosis and treatment.The term virtual reality (VR) refers to ahuman-computer interface that simulates a realisticenvironment while enabling user interaction.A virtual reality surgical simulator consists typically offive components, human body models (virtual patient),physical modeler, pathology modeler, virtual surgicalinstruments, and VR interface.Human body models are a critical component of a VRsurgical simulator. These models encapsulate medicalknowledge and provide means to predict, simulate,validate, and enhance the outcomes of diagnostic andsurgical procedures.