Tangible Organs: Introducing 3D Printed Organ Models with VR to Interact with Medical 3D Models

PubDate: May 2019

Teams: University of Bremen，Pius-Hospital Oldenburg，Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicin

Writers: Anke V. Reinschluessel；Thomas Muender；Verena Uslar；Dirk Weyhe；Andrea Schenk；Rainer Malaka

PDF: Tangible Organs: Introducing 3D Printed Organ Models with VR to Interact with Medical 3D Models

Abstract

Medical images contain important information for diagnosis and preoperative planning in modern medicine. Interacting with these images still happens mostly with a mouse, abstract gestures or handles. In a focus group with five surgeons, we evaluate the possibilities of 3D printed organ models for interaction in VR for the use case of surgery planning. The surgeons rate the approach as highly useful and highlighted the advantage of easier grasping the space relations, which would greatly improve the planning phase of surgery.