One of my professors, Prof. Dr. Viknes Waran Mathaneswaran, is toiling with the possibility of developing simulated neurological surgery. It would be wonderful if anyone familiar with such an endeavor is willing to share their experience with us or if you know anyone within the the said field who might be interested to start a discourse.
I suggest to read proceedings of Medecine Meets Virtual Reality ( also referred as NextMed) and to attend the next conference, that will be likely in 2016 not 2015. We just had one conference this year. In this group you will find prior art and researchers engaged in these areas. Jannick
I know of a company called Neuro touch based in Canada. They have something commercially available for VR in this field. I've put some links into this reply.
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http://www.neurotouch.ca/eng/simulators.html
http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/programs/brain-surgery-virtual-reality-simulation-program
If you do not already know this scientific article, I think that it might help you to have a wide view of the issues and tecnologies:
http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/Abstract/2013/01001/Virtual_Reality_Simulation_in_Neurosurgery__.20.aspx
It was also published a review in 2011 about Virtual reality training in surgery:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114314/
It discusses a point I would like to suggest...that is the augmented reality. Nowadays, the potentials of Virtual Reality are known and the hardest of the work is the visual impact of the simulation. Augmented Reality is a new field where results still miss.
In my modest opinion, I think that either virtual or augmented reality are useful for training but the combination of both is twice useful! A complete tool that offers a completely simulated training environment and uses the same principles and interaction paradigm in augmented reality might be an interesting challenge.
We are currently working on developing a physical simulator based on modifying endoscopic tasks in an attempt to develop a practice protocol to improve endoscopic skills, we did not work on virtual reality or video gaming for our simulator.
I think the Sensable company have got many applications on force-feedback haptics devices for medical surgery in VR environment. www.seansable.com
Thank you everyone for your kind gestures in providing very useful feedbacks. One of the long term goal is definitely to use more of non-invasive approaches in neurological surgeries.
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