Virtual Environment Surgery and the Virtual Hospital

摘要

The Biocomputation Center is dedicated to computer-based three-dimensional (3-D) visualization, mathematically based modeling, and 3-D simulation. The emphasis is on teams of broadly based, interdisciplinary investigators, and on a union between computational, theoretical, and experimental research. Virtual environment surgery (VES) technologies of the Biocomputation Center have found several new applications in FY97, including breast cancer imaging research and 3-D ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) visualization tools. In addition, the first steps have been taken toward creating a virtual hospital, linking several clinical institutions using the VES technology and the Next Generation Internet/NASA Research and Education Network (NGI/NREN).