Episode 38: The Story of Scalpel and Tech in Surgery 😷
The Healthtech Podcast
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PhD in VR and AR in Medicine
I'm interested because it's a PhD in VR and AR in medicine, isn't it? That is right. The first thing that I did was a master's in medical visualisation at University of Glasgow. You learn how to model 3D structures of anatomy using 3DS Max and Maya. And then there is another programme called Amira which is essentially you pick up CT scan data and more idea applications and convert them into 3D visualisations. So if you look at an x-ray, for example, a radiographic image, it's a 2D visualisation of a 3D object. While that is good to an extent, what's really useful is to visualise stuff in
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