Medicine meets virtual reality : Nextmed /

Since the debut of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference in 1992, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education and procedural training. At MMVR, virtual reality becomes a theatre for medicine, where...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
Otros Autores: Westwood, James D.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Ios Press, 2011.
Colección:Studies in health technology and informatics ; v. 163.
Temas:
Medical informatics > Congresses.
Medical education > Congresses.
Virtual reality in medicine > Congresses.
Médecine > Informatique > Congrès.
Enseignement médical > Congrès.
Réalité virtuelle en médecine > Congrès.
MEDICAL > Instruments & Supplies.
Medical education.
Medical informatics.
Virtual reality in medicine.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Since the debut of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference in 1992, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education and procedural training. At MMVR, virtual reality becomes a theatre for medicine, where multiple senses are engaged - sight, sound and touch - and language and image fuse. Precisely because this theatre is unreal, it is a valuable tool: the risks of experimentation and failure are gone, while the opportunity to understand remains. Improvement of this tool, through steady technological.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (769 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781607507062
1607507064
ISSN:0926-9630 ;

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