Innovative new Virtual Reality tool Under Development

Researchers are in the process of developing a tool that combines a virtual reality headset and anatomical 3D modeling of imaging data, to enable clinicians to navigate through the colon and search for polyps and other tumors.

The tool is one several innovations resulting from several decades of research that is currently focused on developing software to help doctors, surgeons, and radiologists perform diagnoses and make decisions using 3D modeling, Virtual Reality (VR) and big data.

The researchers from the GE Healthcare Global Center of Excellence in Medical Imaging Software are located in Buc, France, and are using images from GE scanners for targeted 3D modeling of organs in the human body using virtual reality, and VR headsets.

The new technology enables a clinician to observe an organ or structure from all angles, in cross-sectional view, in 3D and in flat mode. More...