Distributed Virtual Environment for Volume Based Surgical Simulation via the World Wilde Web

Abstract

It needs long time to enducate and train a surgeon because he has few opportunities to rehearsal his learned surgical modalities on patients. To solve the problem, we propose a low-cost distributed VR architecture via the WWW. In this architecture, Web pages from the serve drive VR I/O ment. This is different from the conventiona approach that the serveis responsible for most works and devices. In paper,we focus on the application of volume based surgical simulation that is usually considered consuming large computation and acquiring high-priced workstations.We built a system that uses PC platforms and the WWW media to accomplish the distributed VR surgical simulation.We introduce the simulation algorithms and the methods for cooperating the clients with the serve. Finally,we show an example of muskuloskeletal surgery.