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Virtual surgery simulator in development
E-Health Trend Watch, October 20, 2006
Researchers from Troy, NY-based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cambridge, MA-based Harvard Medical School, Albany (NY) Medical Center, and Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working together to develop a virtual surgery simulator. The goal of the simulator is to allow surgeons to handle computer-generated organs with actual tools used in minimally invasive surgery, according to a Ziff Davis Internet article.
The simulator will be based on haptics, a science focused on the sense of touch. Surgeons will be able to touch, feel, and manipulate computer-generated 3-D tissues and organs with instruments that are used in actual surgery. Work began this summer using a $1.4 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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