Adding Touch to Web-based Surgical Training:
Videos from the SimTecT Interactive Demonstration
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Dr.
LeRoy Heinrichs, Associate Director
of SUMMIT, introduced the interactive demonstration to the
audience in Canberra, Australia from Stanford.
Note: The flickering in the movie
is not from a poor network connection, but is the result one
commonly gets when filming a monitor. |
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Dr.
Sakti Srivastava presented eight stereo
images of the gallbladder and surrounding anatomy from Stanford's
Bassett collection, using the Remote
Stereo Viewer tool. |
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Dr. Sherry Wren and Dr.
Patrick Cregan, role-playing a surgical trainee, began by
grasping the 3D model and cutting away tissue to expose the
gallbladder. |
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Dr. Sherry Wren and Dr. Patrick
Cregan demonstrated the benefits of simulation: mistakes are
ok! |
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Dr. Sherry Wren and Dr. Patrick
Cregan concluded with a demonstration of the hand-guiding
tool so that Dr. Cregan, the "trainee" could feel
the actions and force of the instructor's "hand".
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