medical simulation

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ARA's BioGears(TM) Presented at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference

Press Release | Applied Research Associates, Inc. | February 18, 2014

Applied Research Associates (ARA) will present BioGears(TM), an open-source modeling tool that will allow a wide variety of users to create accurate simulated physiology that fits the needs of the medical simulation and training community, at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) Conference. The BioGears(TM) project will enable the public to develop medical simulations that will benefit military as well as civilian medicine. Read More »

New Software from Kitware Virtualizes Medical Education and Training

Press Release | Kitware | December 6, 2018

Kitware added to its collection of open source toolkits with the first release of the interactive Medical Simulation Toolkit (iMSTK). The toolkit offers manufacturers and researchers all the software components they need to build and test virtual simulators for medical training and planning. "iMSTK, which we've been developing in close collaboration with Professor Suvranu De's research center - the Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - is meant to empower developers to rapidly prototype virtual simulator applications," said Andinet Enquobahrie, the director of medical computing at Kitware.

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Ray Kurzweil: This is your future

Ray Kurzweil | CNN | December 10, 2013

...technologies to reprogram the "software" that underlie human biology are already a thousand times more powerful than they were when the genome project was completed in 2003...<--break-> Read More »

With the BodyExplorer, 'You won't feel a thing...'

Kathryn Sterling | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 2, 2013

I was in the University of Pittsburgh Simulation and Medical Technology Research and Development Center, and the researchers were having me try out the BodyExplorer simulator firsthand. Read More »