Virtual reality-based surgical planning simulator for tumorous resection in FreeForm Modeling: an illustrative case of clinical teaching.

ABSTRACT: The importance of virtual reality (VR) has been emphasized by many medical studies, yet it has been relatively under-applied to surgical operation. This study characterized how VR has been applied in clinical education and evaluated its tutorial utility by designing a surgical model of tumorous resection as a simulator for preoperative planning and medical tutorial. A 36-year-old male patient with a femoral tumor who was admitted to the Affiliated Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was randomly selected and scanned by computed tomography (CT). The data in digital imaging and communications in medicine (*.DICOM) format were imported into Mimics to reconstruct a femoral model, and were generated to the format of *.stl executing in the computer-aided design (CAD) software SenSable

SUBMITTER: Peng MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10895132 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature