Virtual Reality in Medicine

• Main Authors: Riener, Robert (Author), Harders, Matthias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Medicine.; Computer graphics.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Computer Applications.

Virtual Reality has the potential to provide descriptive and practical information for medical training and therapy while relieving the patient or the physician. Multimodal interactions between the user and the virtual environment facilitate the generation of high-fidelity sensory impressions, by us...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Virtual Reality in Medicine
• Input Periphery
• Visual Aspects
• Haptic Aspects
• Auditory Aspects
• Olfactory and Gustatory Aspects
• Virtual Reality for Rehabilitation
• VR for Medical Training
• VR for Planning and Intraoperative Support
• Medical Model Generation
• Soft Tissue Deformation
• Index.