A quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of laparascopy and endoscopy virtual reality simulators

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 283-298

  Srinivasan, Shankar ^a   Mital, Dinesh P ^a   Haque, Syed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Surgical simulators; Training performance; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SURGERY;

META-ANALYSIS; RANDOM-EFFECTS MODEL; SURGICAL SIMULATORS; TRAINING PERFORMANCE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33745508739     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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