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- The MIDEN system uses projectors as part of visualizing a hologram-like three-dimensional cadaver.
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- To generate the virtual image, users wear 3-D glasses and wield a joystick that acts as their scalpel.
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- Users can manipulate and zoom into any layer of the dissected cadaver that would be impossible with a real human body.
Virtual Cadavers Offer New Opportunities In Medicine
Computer-generated models are starting to let researchers and students peer into the body without needing a real human stretched out before them.
Virtual dissection tables have been built at places like Stanford and the University of Calgary. Now University of Michigan computer scientists and biologists have taken the technology another step forward, using projectors, joysticks and 3-D equipment to build a floating holographic human that users can dissect, manipulate and put back together as they wish.
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