Highly-realistic, immersive training environment for hysteroscopy

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 119, Issue , 2006, Pages 176-181

  Harders, Matthias ^a   Bajka, Michael ^b   Spaelter, Ulrich ^c   Tuchschmid, Stefan ^a   Bleuler, Hannes ^c   Szekely, Gabor ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immersive environment; Surgical simulation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENDOSCOPY; SURGERY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HYSTEROSCOPY; IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT; INTERACTION METAPHORS; SENSE OF PRESENCES; SURGICAL SIMULATION; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRAINING EFFECTS; VIRTUAL SCENES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; OPERATING ROOM; SWITZERLAND;

COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; OPERATING ROOMS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33645752185     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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