Applications of virtual reality for medicine
Qing Tang · 2001
Virtual Reality is just emerging as an accepted scientific discipline.It has been widely used in medicine.The major applications of virtual reality for medicine are introduced from three areas:virtual humans,the fusion of virtual humans with real humans and virtual telemedicine.The advanced graphics behind medical virtual reality,such as computational demands,hardware and software environments is briefly discussed.This article also gives a summary of existing distributed VR systems.