Applications of virtual reality for medicine
- VernacularTitle:虚拟现实技术在医学中的应用
- Author:
Sheng XU
;
Qingyu TANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2001;24(2):49-54
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Virtual Reality is just emerging as an accepted scientific discipline. It has been widely used in medicine. The major applications of virtual reality for medicine are introduced from three areas :virtual humans,the fusion of virtual humans with real humans and virtual telemedicine. The advanced graphics behind medical virtual reality,such as computational demands,hardware and software environments is briefly discussed. This article also gives a summary of existing distributed VR systems.
