Virtual learning environment for medical education based on VRML and VTK

Virtual reality (VR) is being applied to a wide range of medical areas, including medical education/training, surgery and diagnostics assistance. In the medical education field, VR opens new realms in the teaching of medicine and creates new effective learning procedures for the students. In contras...

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Published in:Computers & graphics 2005-04, Vol.29 (2), p.283-288
Main Authors: Lu, Jianfeng, Pan, Zhigeng, Lin, Hai, Zhang, Mingmin, Shi, Jiaoying
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