Patient-specific surgical simulation.
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.
Soler
Luc
L
Institut de Recherche sur les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif (IRCAD), 1 place de l'Hôpital, 67091, Strasbourg, France.
Marescaux
Jacques
J
D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D016544:Patient Simulation; D014584:User-Computer Interface