Cadavers Steal the Show in L.A.
...lly look like under the skin. Randy Dotinga reports from Los Angeles.
By Randy Dotinga
2:00 a.m. Sep. 7, 2004 PDT
LOS ANGELES -- With a basketball in hand, arm stretched forward and one foot off the ground, the man on display at a Los Angeles science museum looks like he's dribbling toward a two-poi......more...Flight of the Bumblers
... can't believe the magnitude of it all. It's wild! This was really fun to be a part of, Alexakis said.
Alexakis wasn't the only confused celebrity on hand. John Melendez of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, (formerly Stuttering John of the Howard Stern show) rode a giant tricycle from the local Old To......more... Virtual Soldiers? Dream on, Darpa
...se MRIs, CT scans, X-rays and ultrasound to create a holographic medical electronic representation, or holomer, of a person's body. With a holomer in hand, a doctor will have a patient's base line -- a before picture to compare with the current situation.
When there's a physical injury, it's nice to......more... No More Human Guinea Pigs
...ts on the desktop before they slam SUVs into the wall; oil companies do mock drilling electronically before dig in the ground. Medicine, on the other hand, still experiments on the living.
One of the goals of Satava's Virtual Soldier program is to change that by creating an army of digital test subj......more... England OKs the 'Plastinator'
...al exhibits are slightly surreal, such as the man with his skin neatly removed and draped over his arm, or the horseman carrying his own brain in his hand.
I was pretty fascinated by the exhibition, said Brand. Perhaps future generations will one day look at me and wonder: what did I do, how did I d......more... A Cut Above Traditional Surgery
...y incisions, resulting in significantly less trauma for the patient.
The 3-D graphics display gave me an amazing view of the operative field, and the hand controls provided precise control over the instruments. In fact, I was able to suture with more precision than with conventional surgery, Galen s......more... Live from the Surgical Frontier
...ied for the best time in three drills.
The drills included the cobra rope, a simulated bowel surgery; the terrible triangle, which tests non-dominant hand-eye coordination; and a simulated suturing event.
On Tuesday, Patrick Kim, a surgical student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, h......more... In Step with Digital Dance
... panels along the back wall. The audience gasped as the first virtual dancers appeared a few minutes later.
Composed of spare and colorful lines, the hand-drawn animations moved gracefully across the scrim, appearing to mingle with the real dancers.
pagebreak
Kaiser and Eshkar, multimedia artists fr......more... Well-Armed Against Cancer
...mulation is the same as what you would see if you put the patient back in the scanner, Havezi said.
However, some doctors believe relying on a second-hand image could be risky.
If it's not real time, the anatomy might be different. When you stick the needle in, it changes the anatomy, said Mack Roac......more... |