About this Book

Title page -- Preface -- Biolntelligence Age: Implications for the Future of Medicine -- Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2001 Program Committee -- Contents -- Clinical Fluoroscopic Fiducial-Based Registration of the Vertebral Body in Spinal Neuronavigation -- Neuronavigational Epilepsy Focus Mapping -- A Comparative Statistical Analysis of Neuronavigation Systems in a Clinical Setting -- Real-Time Anatomical 3D Image Extraction for Laparoscopic Surgery -- An Integrated Environment for Stereoscopic Acquisition, Off-Line 3D Elaboration, and Visual Presentation of Biological Actions -- Digital Motion Phenomenology of Depression -- Internet as an "Honest" Management Too lFirst Experience in a National Institute of Health and Social Services in Argentina -- Telemedicine Used in a Simulated Disaster Response -- Real-Time Simulation of Dynamically Deformable Finite Element Models Using Modal Analysis and Spectral Lanczos Decomposition Methods -- Stereoscopic x-ray image processing -- Issues in Validation of a Dermatologic Surgery Simulator -- Software Framework for a Surgical Guidance System using Magnetic Markers -- Measuring In Vivo Animal Soft Tissue Properties for Haptic Modeling in Surgical Simulation -- A Virtual Environment for Simulated Rat Dissection -- Safety in Computer Assisted Surgery -- The Virtual Anatomy Lab: A Hands-on Anatomy Learning Environment -- Telesonography: Technical Problems, Solutions And Results In The Routine Utilization From Remote Areas -- Autocolorization of Three-dimensional Radiological Data -- Development and Evaluation of an Epidural Injection Simulator with Force Feedback for Medical Training -- Statistical analysis of the morphology of three dimensional objects and pathologic structures using spherical harmonics -- Modeling and Simulation for Space Medicine Operations: Preliminary Requirements Considered