Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Harvard Medical School, Albany Medical Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating to develop a new approach to surgical ...

Limited access to adequate cancer surgery training is one of the driving forces behind global inequities in surgical cancer care. Affordable virtual reality (VR) surgical training could enhance ...

Overall Survival of Patients With ALK-Positive Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer in the Russian Federation: Nationwide Cohort Study Worldwide, more than 80% of people diagnosed with cancer will ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a $347,000, two-year grant to develop a next-generation simulator to train surgeons to perform minimally invasive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new simulator will put cataract surgeons-in-training in a virtual operating room and connect them with remote ...

When I was a medical student, I had the opportunity to try an ophthalmic surgery simulator that allowed for the creation of a capsulorrhexis, removal of nuclear fragments, and even a core vitrectomy.

The operative times of third-year residents learning phacoemulsification may be significantly reduced by early and continuous implementation of mandatory virtual simulator surgical training before ...

FundamentalVR is launching a virtual reality surgery training platform using haptics and physical feedback to create a tactile, flight simulator-like experience for surgeons. The software platform, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Refractive surgery planning needs a paradigm shift to a more prospective approach. Simulation software designed ...

Computer-based Surgical Simulators offer a real-life visual and tactile simulation of various surgical procedures. With surgical simulators, visual components are reproduced by computer graphics while ...