Canadian researchers has claimed that they have developed the most detailed movable ‘4D’ image of human model that will enable doctors to plan complex surgeries or to exhibit patients that how illness looks like inside their bodies.
This movable human model called CAVEman, the larger-than-life computer image includes more than 3,000 distinct body parts those can be viewed in a booth and gives the image height, width and depth.
This new innovation enables scientists to layer on inimitable visuals of patients, such as magnetic resonance images, CAT scans and X-Rays and also facilitates to get high-resolution views of the inner functioning of the body while it appears to float within arm’s reach.
Christoph Sensen, director of the medical school’s Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics asserted:
Today, this kind of a model is unique in the world. It’s the only one that is complete,” said “We have components of models. We could make this thing with 50 different brains because everybody makes their own brain model. What we didn’t have was a whole, complete body.
According to the officials of the University Of Calgary Faculty Of Medicine, who has worked on the development of this system for six years this new advancement will also assist physicians to study the genetics of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, muscular sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
The CAVEman can be visualized through 3-D glasses in a booth to facilitate controller to operate and to focus it on body parts like skin, bones, muscles, organs, veins and to get more intricate picture of muscles and bones this innovation is initiated on a desire expressed by massage therapy teachers at a company in the central Alberta city of Red Deer.
Sensen further said:
The medical community will benefit by being able to merge patients’ diagnostic results - such as computerized internal images and blood tests - in one place, allowing specialists to work together more closely.
CAVEman is an outcome of a 3-D virtual reality “Cave”, a $5.5 million lab called the Sun Center which was opened in 2002 in collaboration with Sun Microsystems Inc and the estimated development cost of this avant-garde innovation lies between $460,000 and $1.8 million.
Via: Reuters
