Augmented and virtual reality in surgery-the digital surgical environment: Applications, limitations and legal pitfalls

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 23, 2016, Pages

  Khor, Wee Sim ^a   Baker, Benjamin ^a   Amin, Kavit ^a   Chan, Adrian ^b   Patel, Ketan ^c   Wong, Jason ^d  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Occipital VR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Augmented reality (AR); Surgery; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SURGERY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 85006459571     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/atm.2016.12.23     Document Type: Article

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