VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED ANGIOPLASTY SIMULATOR

描述(改编自申请人摘要)：申请人建议 开发基于虚拟现实的介入心脏病学模拟器。 这项工作的目标是模拟诊断程序的“外观” 插管、经皮冠状动脉腔内成形术(PTCA)、 和冠状动脉支架以足够的精确度作为平台 心血管设备的设计和评估。重点将放在 论模拟器作为教学认证工具的有效性 用于医生培训和认证。该模拟器将基于 介入放射学达芬奇导管插入模拟器 由约翰斯医院信息增强医学中心开发 霍普金斯大学医学院。将配置模拟器 使用有限元建模提供精确的物理应用 导管、导丝、扩张气球和支架等设备。 心脏和治疗血管的模型将从 可视人类项目和患者特定数据。开发一种新的 高保真介入心脏病学模拟器将导致 通过减少医疗器械差错来降低医疗保健成本， 通过减少以下方面的学习曲线来提高医生的绩效 使用人类患者，减少对患者和动物的训练，以及 提供了一种维持医生能力的机制。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The applicants propose to develop a virtual reality-based simulator for interventional cardiology. The goal of this work is to simulate the "look and feel" of diagnostic catheterization, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), and coronary stenting with enough accuracy to serve as a platform for the design and evaluation of cardiovascular devices. Emphasis will be placed on validation of the simulator as a teaching and certification instrument for physician training and accreditation. The simulator will be based on the da Vinci catheter insertion simulator for interventional radiology developed at the Centre for Information-enhanced Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The simulator will be configured using finite element modeling to provide accurate physical applications of devices such as catheters, guidewires, dilatation balloons and stents. Models of the heart and the treat vessels will be derived from the Visible Human Project and patient-specific data. The development of a high fidelity interventional cardiology simulator will lead to a reduction in health care costs by reducing medical device errors, improving physician performance by reducing the learning curves in which human patients are used, reduce training on patients and animals, and providing a mechanism for maintenance of physician competence.