Virtual Reality in Medicine

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• In one of my projects using the multi-user
  virtual reality environment offered by Second
  Life, one of several easily available online
  virtual reality environments, we have used a
  virtual psychosis environment to teach medical
  students about the auditory and visual
  hallucinations suffered by patients with
  schizophrenia. Virtual reality has been used to
  provide medical education about healthcare
  responses to emergencies such as earthquakes,
  plane crashes and fires. While the primary
  advantage in phobia treatment is a "safe
  environment" which patients can explore, the
  primary advantage in emergency preparedness is
  simulation of events that are either too rare or
  too dangerous for effective real-world training.
  The immersive nature of the virtual reality
  experience helps to recreate the sense of urgency
  or panic associated with these events.

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• In one of my projects using the multi-user
  virtual reality environment offered by Second
  Life, one of several easily available online
  virtual reality environments, we have used a
  virtual psychosis environment to teach medical
  students about the auditory and visual
  hallucinations suffered by patients with
  schizophrenia. Virtual reality has been used to
  provide medical education about healthcare
  responses to emergencies such as earthquakes,
  plane crashes and fires. While the primary
  advantage in phobia treatment is a "safe
  environment" which patients can explore, the
  primary advantage in emergency preparedness is
  simulation of events that are either too rare or
  too dangerous for effective real-world training.
  The immersive nature of the virtual reality
  experience helps to recreate the sense of urgency
  or panic associated with these events.

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• In one of my projects using the multi-user
  virtual reality environment offered by Second
  Life, one of several easily available online
  virtual reality environments, we have used a
  virtual psychosis environment to teach medical
  students about the auditory and visual
  hallucinations suffered by patients with
  schizophrenia. Virtual reality has been used to
  provide medical education about healthcare
  responses to emergencies such as earthquakes,
  plane crashes and fires. While the primary
  advantage in phobia treatment is a "safe
  environment" which patients can explore, the
  primary advantage in emergency preparedness is
  simulation of events that are either too rare or
  too dangerous for effective real-world training.
  The immersive nature of the virtual reality
  experience helps to recreate the sense of urgency
  or panic associated with these events.

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Virtual Reality in Medicine

• Virtual reality techniques, involving
  three-dimensional imaging and surround sound, are
  increasingly being used in diagnosis, treatment,
  and medical education. Initial applications of
  virtual reality in medicine involved
  visualization of the complex data sets generated
  by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic
  resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
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  laster-system-review/
• A recent application of these techniques for
  diagnostic purposes has been the "virtual
  colonoscopy," in which data from a
  contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scan is used to
  make a "fly-through" of the colon.
• http//innertradingcirclereview.org/the-flab-blast
  er-guide-review/
• Radiologists then use this fly-through for colon
  cancer screening. Recent improvements in
  methodology have brought the sensitivity and
  specificity of this technique closer to the
  levels of optical colonoscopy, and patients
  prefer the technique to the traditional method.
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  er-program-review/
• Virtual reality has also been used extensively to
  treat phobias (such as a fear of heights, flying
  and spiders) and post-traumatic stress disorder.
  This type of therapy has been shown to be
  effective in the academic setting, and several
  commercial entities now offer it to patients.