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Up in Iowa, doctors at Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center are getting the new BodyViz 3D Visualization software to view CT and MRI scans of patients in full 3D interactive glory on their laptops.  KCCI Des Moines has an interview with the software developer, Eliot Winer, and some of the doctors.

He showed an example of how the BodyViz software can make a difference in helping doctors between understand a case. With the scan of a 6-month-old baby's abdomen, the software highlights dense tissue in bright white, drawing attention to something unusual.

“What you're seeing is this tumor,” Winer said. “What it's actually doing is squishing, moving her other organs to make space.”

via Iowa Docs To Soon Use New 3D Scans – Health News Story – KCCI Des Moines.

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Curt Carlson recently gave a public demonstration of his BodyViz product to a small group at the Western Iowa Tech Community College, showing how it can load 3D medical scans and enable interactive exploration and visualization.

BodyViz has extensive visualization features which enable users to quickly and effectively view and interact with their patient’s data in a never-before-seen 3D manner which is changing the way medical professionals view their world. The user interface is operated by an Xbox 360 controller (yes, I said “Xbox”), which allows anyone from surgeons to medical or anatomy students to simply “travel” under the skin, past the bones, through the arteries, blood vessels and organs, and literally fly through patients’ bodies. In fact, Carlson alluded to the film “Fantastic Voyage” several times during his Cherokee presentation.

Of course this was mostly a PR stunt, but with systems like this getting more press recently, I wonder when patients will start asking doctors about it.

via Cherokee Chronicle Times: Story: Graphic Imaging software demonstrated at WITCC.

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