Medicine meets Virtual Reality 2001

Outer space, inner space, virtual space. Edited by James D. Westwood, Helene M. Hoffman, Greg T. Mogel, Don Stredney and Richard A. Robb.

9. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Newport Beach, California, January 24-27, 2001. Since 1992, the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference series has gathered physicians, computer scientists, and IT innovators to promote informatics technologies for use in healthcare. Its unique and multidisciplinary assemblage of expertise encourages novel interactions and development of innovative tools for use in the medical environment. The January 2001 conference presents forefront research on tools for telemedicine, computer-assisted diagnosis and surgery, psychotherapy, and education. The proceedings describes applications used in clinical care, and also these applications' underlying technologies: simulation, visualization, imaging, haptics, and robotics. XVIII,609 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abb., gebunden (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 81/IOS Press 2001) slightly bumped/leicht bestoßen