Feasibility Study for a Scottish Medical Visualisation Network - Final Report

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The Feasibility Study was conducted for one year between 2007 and 2008. This report describes the scope of the study through persons and organisations contacted, presents the case studies undertaken, on-going development work and concludes with a strategic overview of the area coupled to recommendations for the future.
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\nTraditionally, the only means medical practitioners have had to view real three-dimensional structures of the human body have been in the form of patients and cadavers. Now, however, advances in 3D visualisation technologies are making it possible to view and interact with such structures without the need or reliance on the use of real people or body parts. The ability to take vast quantities of existing two-dimensional sectional data, and render it into realistic interactive three-dimensional images has the potential to affect profound changes in medicine in terms of teaching, learning and cognition.
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\nThe Digital Design Studio, together with the

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