Project Number
- 22
Title
- Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning with a Head-Mounted Display
Description
- Immersive medical application for radiotherapy beam targeting in a virtual environment.
Contact
- Suresh Balu, James C. Chung, Brad Crittenden, Terry Yoo
Affiliation
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address
- Department of Computer Science
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
- +1.919.962.1700
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- "This application demonstrates a head-mounted, display-based user interface for radiotherapy beam targeting."
- Using head-tracking and a realtime virtual environment presentation, a more natural immersion of participant occurs.
- Interacting with a highly responsive, intuitive and data-driven environment, therapists can explore more precise planning of optimal strategies before implementing them on real patients.
Sight
- VPL Eyephone models 1 and 2, Pixel Planes 5, Macintosh IIci
Sound
- audio cues
Touch
- Polhemus Navigational Sciences 3Space Magnetic Tracker
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 201 - virtual environment
Secondary
- 301 - visualization
Remarks
- UNC-developed software.
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