
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13
The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now
IOS Press,US
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2006
Book
Hardback
660 pages
978-1-58603-498-6 (ISBN)
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Description
To continue medical progress, physicians and scientists must openly question traditional models. Valid inquiry demands a willingness to consider all possible solutions without prejudice. Medical politics should not perpetuate unproven assumptions nor curtail reasoned experimentation, unbiased measurement, and well-informed analysis. For thirteen years, MMVR has been an incubator for technologies that create new medical understanding via the simulation, visualization, and extension of reality. Researchers create imaginary patients because they offer a more reliable and controllable experience to the novice surgeon. With imaging tools, reality is purposefully distorted to reveal to the clinician what the eye alone cannot see. Robotics and intelligence networks allow the healer's sight, hearing, touch, and judgment to be extended across distance, as if by magic. The moments when scientific truth is suddenly revealed after lengthy observation, experimentation, and measurement is the real magic. These moments are not miraculous, however. They are human ingenuity in progress and they are documented here in this book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
Netherlands
Publishing group
IOS Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-58603-498-6 (9781586034986)
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