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Description:
As computer technology becomes more powerful, and research
in simulation and virtual reality in medicine is successful,
medical real-time simulators can present complex, interactive,
and lifelike experiences for medical education, operation
planning and training. The simulators allow to acquire medical
information and clinical skills in a shorter time and at a lower
risk. The ability to mimic reality is required both (i) to create an
environment to learn important skills and (ii) to feel as if one is
interacting with a real patient. Of peculiar importance are the
simulations of the unpredictable and changing environment that
operators encounter during actual procedures. Complications
must also be simulated in order to allow the user to encounter
difficult real-life situations in the safety of the virtual world.
Nowadays, a set of challenges still exists in a multidisciplinary domain composed of mathematics and mechanics applied to the life sciences: (i) to explore the behaviour of physiological fluids flowing through highly deformable vessels in order to optimize therapeutic gas inhalation, vascular medical devices for instance, (ii) to get a better knowledge on the behaviour of biological structures in order to develop suitable biomaterials and prostheses with reactive components to avoid complications, (iii) to develop new tools and exploring techniques in medecine, (iv) to master the organ feed-back to improve the treatment, (v) to work out training simulators and (vi) to build robots, in particular for telesurgery.
The symposium is aimed at presenting the present state of art and discussing research and development activities in the one hand and at emphasizing the links between the different research communities in the other hand.
Date received: November 21, 2001
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