Abstract The healthcare industry includes millions of
practitioners who
participate in on-going education, training, and certification. Although the airline industry has
used flight simulators
for many years, difficult technical challenges have limited the use of virtual reality in medicine.
HT Medical Systems
embarked on a research program that has resulted in an ability to realistically interact with
computer environments,
based on the Visible Human Datasets (VHDs), that represent accurate behaviors of tissues and
organs
Keywords: Endoscopy, haptic, interventional, medical errors, medical simulation,
tactile feedback.
