An architecture of a VR simulation system for cardiac intervention

Proceedings of The 7th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, VRCAI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yu, Rongdong ^a   Ye, Xiuzi ^a   Zhang, Sanyuan ^a   Zhang, Yin ^a   Cai, Yiyu ^b   Zheng, Jianmin ^b   Chen, Wenyu ^b   Chiang, Patricia ^b   Tun, Mon Hnin ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Architecture; Cardiac surgical simulation; GPU; VR environment

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC INTERVENTIONS; CARDIAC MODELING; CARDIAC SURGICAL SIMULATION; CARDIAC VISUALIZATION; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; GPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS; VR ENVIRONMENT; VR SIMULATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 70349114537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1477862.1477907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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