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Endoscopic Targeting Tasks Simulator: An Approach Using Game Engines, Shaun W. Carnegie
Endoscopic Targeting Tasks Simulator: An Approach Using Game Engines, Shaun W. Carnegie
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The pervasiveness of simulators used in professions requiring the skilled control of expensive machinery such as is the case in the aviation, mining, construction, and naval industries raises an intriguing question about the relatively poor adoption within the field of medicine. Certain surgical procedures such as neuro-endoscopic and laparoscopic lend themselves well to the application of virtual reality based simulators. This is due to the innate ability to decom- pose these complex macro level procedures into a hierarchy of subtasks that can be modelled in a software simulator to augment existing teaching and training techniques.
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