Education and demonstration – Anatomy – physiology – therapeutic treatment – or surgery...
Patent
1995-03-29
1999-03-16
Hafer, Robert A.
Education and demonstration
Anatomy, physiology, therapeutic treatment, or surgery...
G09B 2328
Patent
active
058822062
ABSTRACT:
A virtual surgery system or virtual testing system provides a simulation or test based on image data. A simulator combined with a real exam requires simulation tasks by a test taker. Additionally, a surgical procedure may be simulated using image data of a patient in devices simulating the physical instruments a surgeon uses in performing the actual procedure, for example. The user input device, such as a mouse, three dimensional mouse, joystick, seven dimensional joystick, full size simulator, etc., can be used in a virtual simulation to move through the image data while the user looks at the data and interaction of the input device with the image data on a display screen. Force feedback can be provided based on physical constraint models (of the anatomy, for example), or based on edge and collision detection between the virtual scope or virtual tool used by the operator and walls or edges of the image data in the image space. The virtual simulator may be used as a teaching, training, testing, demonstration, or remote telesurgery device, for example.
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Hafer Robert A.
Rovnak John Edmund
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