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Virtual Reality Systems for Surgical Oncology
New surgical techniques continuously introduce significant challenges, increasing the need for improved rehearsal. Currently, the training of most new surgeons is carried out in the operating room under the observation of more experienced mentors. As a result, the efficiency of the attending surgeon is reduced causing a significant increase in operating room time and cost.
To ensure the widespread and safe adoption of new and complex surgical techniques, at a reasonable cost, it is imperative to provide surgeons with the means to accelerate training and enable rehearsal. This will be made possible with the development of advanced surgical simulation technology such as the virtual reality system currently being developed.
MRR&D is participating in an NRC-wide three year program to develop a virtual reality (VR) simulator which may one day be used to plan brain surgeries and train new brain surgeons. The program involves several NRC institutes and approximately 40 NRC researchers from such diverse fields as the simulation of deformable materials, information technology and biodiagnostics.
Researchers at NRC-IBD are conducting a study in which imaging techniques are optimised to collect high quality information for use in the simulator and, working closely with members of the project team at other institutes, to insure that this data is in a format suitable for use in the simulator.
Patient-Specific Virtual Reality Systems for Surgical Oncology
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