3D Medical Imaging Pilot to Improve Surgical Outcomes for Patients with Crohn’s Disease
Pilot study to create a 3D Medical Imaging tool to personalize clinical decisions and improve surgical outcomes for patients with Crohn’s disease.Look twice, cut once – University of California News
Before Sonia Ramamoorthy, M.D., chief of colon and rectal surgery at UC San Diego Health, took a scalpel to Larry Smarr, she first took a virtual tour of his large intestine. It encompassed an entire room.This UC San Diego Professor Planned His Surgery In Virtual Reality – KPBS
UC San Diego's Larry Smarr is the kind of guy who wears a Fitbit, monitors his sleep and has had his DNA sequenced. But he takes the whole self-tracking thing farther than most. He has mapped his internal organs in three dimensions. He even has a 3-D printed model of part of his colon.
The Emerging Role Of Biogrids
Mark Ellisman, Michael Brady, David Hart, Fang-Pang Lin, Matthias Muller, Larry Smarr, Comm. ACM, 47 (11) 52-57 (2004).