Virtual Reality Neurosurgery: A Simulator Blueprint

Neurosurgery

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 783-798

  Spicer, Mark A ^a   Van Velsen, Martin ^b   Caffrey, John P ^b   Apuzzo, Michael L J ^a   Kelly, Patrick J ^c   Black, Peter McL ^c   Benzel, Edward C ^c   Adler Jr , John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Collision detection; Computational modeling; Simulation architecture; Speech recognition; Surgical simulation; Tissue fracture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 1842483383     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000114139.16118.F2     Document Type: Review

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