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Scalable Medical Viewer for Virtual Reality Environments

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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR 2015)

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This paper presents a scalable virtual reality-based software for medical visualization. Usable on a desktop, on a head-mounted display or on a CAVE-like system, the application allows the full inspection of CT or MRI images superimposed to the 3D models of the organs built from these images. Additionally full volume rendering functionalities and several interaction tools as transparencies, choice of the CT slice to display, hiding and showing of meshes and additional information on the scanning procedure are available. The tool aims at offering an in-depth inspection of the body organs for medical, education and surgical preoperative planning.

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Acknowledgments

The paper was compiled with the assistance of the Tiger University Program of the Estonian Information Technology Foundation (VisPar system, EITSA/HITSA Tiigriülikool grants 10-03-00-24, 12-03-00-11 and 13030009).

This research was supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund, in particular through funding for the “Centre for Nonlinear Studies” as an Estonian national centre of excellence. This research was also supported by the European Social Fund’s Doctoral Studies and Internationalisation Programme DoRa 4 (through a long time stipend for E.P.) and DoRa 5 (for the short term stipend of F.R.). Furthermore, the IDK 2014/2015 grant for E.P.’s studies is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Engineering for Innovation, Università Del Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Francesco Ricciardi & Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

  2. Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Francesco Ricciardi, Emiliano Pastorelli & Heiko Herrmann

  3. Institut Für Physik, Technische Universotät Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

    Heiko Herrmann

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Ricciardi, F., Pastorelli, E., De Paolis, L.T., Herrmann, H. (2015). Scalable Medical Viewer for Virtual Reality Environments. In: De Paolis, L., Mongelli, A. (eds) Augmented and Virtual Reality. AVR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22888-4_17

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