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At present, a vast amount and wide variety of medical images are used for surgical assessment. Before surgery, neurosurgeons must carefully read a vast amount of such image data and generate three-dimensional images by fusing the data in their heads to evaluate the applicability of surgery. In association with these tasks, the recent advances in computer technology have led to many studies on virtual reality surgical simulation using medical fusion three-dimensional computer graphics (medical fusion 3DCG), which fuses multiple medical image data to visualize them as three-dimensional images (Fig. 1). This article reviews the technology, clinical usefulness, and issues of virtual reality surgical simulation using medical fusion 3DCG. Meanwhile, the scope of this article is restricted to the clinical application of virtual reality surgical simulation. The educational objectives and basic research of this procedure are not discussed.
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Kin, T. (2023). Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation and Planning. In: Shah, A., Goel, A., Kato, Y. (eds) Functional Anatomy of the Brain: A View from the Surgeon’s Eye. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3412-6_20
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