A Project with Heart

摘要

In 2006, three clinicians at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Heart Hospital, Drs. Sue Wright, Andrew Smith and Bruce Martin, got together to share their frustration about the lack of a realistic model of the human heart that could be used to teach cardiac anatomy. They came up with the idea of creating a virtual heart, and quickly realized that if it were based on an anatomical 3D data set, such a model could be used to generate a simulated ultrasound image.