An eye tracking based virtual reality system for use inside magnetic resonance imaging systems.

ABSTRACT: Patients undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) often experience anxiety and sometimes distress prior to and during scanning. Here a full MRI compatible virtual reality (VR) system is described and tested with the aim of creating a radically different experience. Potential benefits could accrue from the strong sense of immersion that can be created with VR, which could create sense experiences designed to avoid the perception of being enclosed and could also provide new modes of diversion and interaction that could make even lengthy MRI examinations much less challenging. Most current VR systems rely on head mounted displays combined with head motion tracking to achieve and maintain a visceral sense of a tangible virtual world, but this technology and approach encourages physical moti

SUBMITTER: Qian K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8357830 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature