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Erasmus Medical Centre has installed a 3D immersive-computing
environment that is allowing clinicians from different disciplines to
work collaboratively on new areas of medical diagnosis. It uses data
derived from genome and protein databanks, medical imaging and the
datamining of large clinical databases.
The computer scientists at the Medical Centre — part of Rotterdam’s
Erasmus University — have also developed software that can convert
conventional 2D images produced by medical scanning equipment into
detailed 3D and 4D virtual-reality scenarios.
Full story in bjhc&im November 2006 (615 words)
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