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Mixed reality for visualization of orthopedic surgical anatomy

In the modern era, preoperative planning is substantially facilitated by artificial reality technologies, which permit a better understanding of patient anatomy, thus increasing the safety and accuracy of surgical interventions. In the field of orthopedic surgery, the increase in safety and accuracy...

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Autores principales: Chytas, Dimitrios, Nikolaou, Vasileios S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34754828
http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v12.i10.727
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description In the modern era, preoperative planning is substantially facilitated by artificial reality technologies, which permit a better understanding of patient anatomy, thus increasing the safety and accuracy of surgical interventions. In the field of orthopedic surgery, the increase in safety and accuracy improves treatment quality and orthopedic patient outcomes. Artificial reality technologies, which include virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), use digital images obtained from computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. VR replaces the user’s physical environment with one that is computer generated. AR and MR have been defined as technologies that permit the fusing of the physical with the virtual environment, enabling the user to interact with both physical and virtual objects. MR has been defined as a technology that, in contrast to AR, enables users to visualize the depth and perspective of the virtual models. We aimed to shed light on the role that MR can play in the visualization of orthopedic surgical anatomy. The literature suggests that MR could be a valuable tool in orthopedic surgeon’s hands for visualization of the anatomy. However, we remark that confusion exists in the literature concerning the characteristics of MR. Thus, a more clear description of MR is needed in orthopedic research, so that the potential of this technology can be more deeply understood.
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spelling pubmed-85543462021-11-08 Mixed reality for visualization of orthopedic surgical anatomy Chytas, Dimitrios Nikolaou, Vasileios S World J Orthop Editorial In the modern era, preoperative planning is substantially facilitated by artificial reality technologies, which permit a better understanding of patient anatomy, thus increasing the safety and accuracy of surgical interventions. In the field of orthopedic surgery, the increase in safety and accuracy improves treatment quality and orthopedic patient outcomes. Artificial reality technologies, which include virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), use digital images obtained from computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. VR replaces the user’s physical environment with one that is computer generated. AR and MR have been defined as technologies that permit the fusing of the physical with the virtual environment, enabling the user to interact with both physical and virtual objects. MR has been defined as a technology that, in contrast to AR, enables users to visualize the depth and perspective of the virtual models. We aimed to shed light on the role that MR can play in the visualization of orthopedic surgical anatomy. The literature suggests that MR could be a valuable tool in orthopedic surgeon’s hands for visualization of the anatomy. However, we remark that confusion exists in the literature concerning the characteristics of MR. Thus, a more clear description of MR is needed in orthopedic research, so that the potential of this technology can be more deeply understood. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8554346/ /pubmed/34754828 http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v12.i10.727 Text en ©The Author(s) 2021. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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