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- From: cyberoid@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: APPS: VR and Medicine?
- Message-ID: <1ib60pINNr70@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 09:41:54 GMT
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- In article <1huav5INN6ts@shelley.u.washington.edu> Andy Kossowsky
- <AKOSSOWSKY@TURBO.kean.edu> writes:
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- >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.
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- 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.
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- Bob
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