SBIR-STTR Award

Responding to trauma cases effectively requires an understanding of underlying anatomy and pathologies. A training system can help develop a student's understanding by displaying the internal anatomy in a meaningful context--the context of an actual patient. Augmented Reality provides exactly this type of visualization, showing computer generated images in a real-world context. ToLTech proposes to enhance the effectiveness of mannequin-based training simulators with Augmented Reality, utilizing our experience in building and interacting with virtual anatomy.

Keywords:
Anatomy Enhanced Mannequin-Based Simulation, Medical Simulation

Augmented Reality (AR) for health care training requires AR technologies, computer training technologies, and the effective presentation of medical/anatomical data that is both accurate and relevant to simulated trauma. We will: extend our AR capabilities developed in Phase I, generalizing them across three types of workspaces; develop a process for fitting our highly accurate models of anatomy to a given trauma by enhancing our current FEM-based techniques; and modify our company''s existing training products to function within AR workspaces, developing better software tools for authoring lessons;

Keywords:
Augmented Reality, Virtual Patient, Three Dimensional Graphics