Medicine Meets Virtual Reality15. In Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico: Designing the Next in Medicine
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Author(s): J. Westwood et al. (Eds)
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 97156037130
Format: hardback
528pp
Price: £95.00
Review Date: 19 July 2007
Review: These are the proceedings of the medical education conference held in California in : the biological, the informational and the physical/material. They are pieced together by design. Images, sensors and robots are machines designed to move constantly inwards, operating within smaller dimensions. Ways are designed to visualize, simplify, communicate, and understand complex biomedical data – these can be as basic as colour-coding or as advanced as Internet2. In measuring and manipulating health, the design of information is important. In the in vitro environment, tissue engineering relies on creating an imitation metabolic system for growing artificial body parts. I the world of virtual reality the silica mini-worlds of test tubes and Petri dishes are translated into mini-worlds containing silicon chips where algorithms replace chemicals and proteins in a search for new drugs. And in surgical training computers are replacing patients. The papers reflect this vision of the future.