Thursday, January 12, 2012

The Virtual Anatomy, Ready for Dissection

Every hospital/clinic should have this technology, The medical staff could then correlate the clot or bleed location to this 3d map and come up with a reasonable diagnosis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/business/the-human-anatomy-animated-with-3-d-technology.html?scp=1&sq=cadaver&st=cse
PEOPLE wear 3-D glasses for new movies like “The Adventures of Tintin.” But for medical school?

Students at the New York University School of Medicine worked in an anatomy class, using iPads — in protective plastic — containing the course curriculum.

The answer is yes at the New York University School of Medicine, which is using 3-D technology to update a rite of passage for would-be doctors: anatomy class.

In a basement lab at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan last month, students in scrubs and surgical gloves hovered over cadavers on gurneys, preparing, as would-be doctors have for centuries, to separate rib cages and examine organs. But the dead are imperfect stand-ins for the living. Death — and embalming fluid — take a toll.

So, in an adjacent classroom, a group of students wearing 3-D glasses made by Nvidia, a graphics processing firm, dissected a virtual cadaver projected on a screen. Using a computer to control the stereoscopic view, they swooped through the virtual body, its sections as brightly colored as living tissue. First, the students scrutinized layers of sinewy pink muscles layered over ivory bones. Then, with the click of a mouse, they examined a close-up of the heart, watching as deep blue veins and bright red arteries made the heart pump.

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