TEACHING HUMAN BODY STRUCTURES USING VIRTUAL REALITY
Santos Machado, Ronei Marcos de Moraes · 2004
Abstract ⎯ Virtual reality can help medicine learning and teaching in biomedical fields. This paper presents three interactive visualization programs for human structures identification: the virtual woman pelvis, the virtual man head and virtual woman heart. The goal is allow an immersive visualization and exploration of the human body anatomy sticking out its main structures. The virtual woman pelvis shows an internal visualization of the female pelvic region with three layers of details: external viewing, skeleton viewing and bone marrow viewing. The virtual man head has as goal to provide a study of some structures found in the human head, as the skin, the facial muscles, the cranial bones and the brain. The system includes the identification of each structure and allows a partial dissection from the skin to the brain. Nowadays, the system offers stereoscopic visualization by anaglyphs and is being updated to offer that visualization by polarized filters/glasses using the VirtWall system [11]. Index Terms ⎯ virtual reality, biomedical education, visualization