A virtual reality simulator for remote interventional radiology: Concept and prototype design

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1696-1700

  Xin, Ma ^a   Lei, Zhao ^a   Volkau, Ihar ^a   Weili, Zheng ^a   Aziz, Aamer ^a   Ang Jr , Marcelo H ^b   Nowinski, Wieslaw L ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Interventional radiology; Modeling; Remote procedure; Simulation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MODELING; REMOTE PROCEDURE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; RADIOLOGY; TRACKING (POSITION); VIRTUAL REALITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MODEL; MOTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33746606063     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.873762     Document Type: Article

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