The Karlsruhe Endoscopic Surgery Trainer as an example for virtual reality in medical education

U. G. Kühnapfel Institute of Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Research Center, Karlsruhe, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]

Ch. Kuhn Institute of Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany

M. Hubner Institute of Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany

H.-G. Krumm Institute of Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany

H. Maass Institute of Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany

B. Neisius Institute of Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany

Summary

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that can teach surgeons new procedures and determine their level of competence before they operate on patients. An overview of the current state of development for the ‘Karlsruhe Endoscopic Surgery Trainer’, a VR technology-based training system for laparo-scopic surgery, is presented. Special attention is given to geometric modelling techniques for graphical real-time performance and elastodynamically deform-able tissue models.

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