title: Patient-specific surgical simulation.
abstract: Technological innovations of the twentieth century have provided medicine and surgery with new tools for education and therapy definition. Thus, by combining Medical Imaging and Virtual Reality, patient-specific applications providing preoperative surgical simulation have become possible.
authors: Institut de Recherche sur les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif (IRCAD), 1 place de l'Hôpital, 67091, Strasbourg, France.
authors: Luc
authors: L
authors: Soler
authors: Jacques
authors: J
authors: Marescaux
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D016544:Patient Simulation; D014584:User-Computer Interface