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Post  ianadds on Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:29 am

Medicine's next frontier
SCI-TECH SCENE | 3-D imaging can be a giant leap for health care
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/2435054,CST-NWS-ECOL26.article

Dr. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, a pioneer in performing surgery with robots, envisions the day when he will see a patient's MRI and discuss surgery with experts worldwide on an interactive screen inside his operating room.

"The possibility of having high-quality imaging and interactive communication on the walls is a concept that's very close to our ideal," said Giulianotti, a professor of surgery and chief of the minimally invasive, general and robotic surgery division at the University of Illinois at Chicago.



Jason Leigh (left) and Andy Johnson, associate professors of computer science at UIC, with the university's virtual reality environment CAVE.
(Rich Hein/Sun-Times)

High-tech upgrades
This new technology is known as the Next Generation CAVE (NG-CAVE), featuring high-tech upgrades to UIC's CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment, introduced in 1992, where 3-D images are projected onto three walls and the floor.

Researchers aim to have a prototype by next summer and expect a fully functioning Next Generation Cave by the summer of 2012, with help from federal stimulus dollars.

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Post  seeker401 on Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:11 am

stimulus..always..

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