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Virtual colonoscopy

Virtual colonoscopy uses x rays and virtual reality to produce 2D and 3D images of the colon (large intestine in non-medical terminology) from the lowest part - the rectum - right up to the small intestine and display the rendered output. Used to diagnose colon and bowel disease, Virtual colonoscopy uses CAT scans and MRIs.

See also: Virtual colonography

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Virtual Colonography vs. Standard Colonoscopy
Virtual colonography is a relatively new field, which is completely non-invasive. A computed Topography (CT) scan is taken, where the body is invasively scanned into slices, which are then reconstituted into a 3D model of a person's colon, for a painless colonoscopy.



Julian Dibbell, freelance writer, and author of ?A Tiny Life? and other works chronicling the massive, disruptive impact of virtual lives on both the physical and the virtual. He tried a little experiment: was it possible to make more money from his forays into the virtual, buying and selling virtual items, than he makes as a successful writer?





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Virtual worlds with real purposes
BBC Click examines the creation of a virtual copy of Berlin, intended as a space for virtual tourism.



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Ditching the V-Word
A lovely escapist magazine article about why the ?virtual? in virtual worlds and virtual environments, has outlived its usefulness, and is doing more harm than good, to the industry.



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Mugging ? on a Massive Virtual Scale
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News from the 18th of August 2005, the first recorded case of a man arrested for mugging a great many people in a virtual world - and then taking their virtual goods, and selling them wholesale on an auction website. Industrial grade mugging - in a virtual world.



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Virtual Property Theft ? Physical Murder
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Industry news, from 01-04-2005. Hands up who saw this one coming? That?s right, you can all put your hands down now. Virtual property, existing only in a database server, has long been a hot topic in virtual reality, as to who actually owns it. Now, this case has reached a new level, with the murder of a man accused of stealing a virtual sword.



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A Proposal of Marriage
A short, but pointed article about virtual marriage, both in the difficulties of a real marriage in the virtual, and how the emotional involvement changes things, and then a look at the roleplaying benefits of pretend virtual marriages ? as opposed to real virtual marriages.



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Render Unto Caesar
Virtual worlds have shown themselves to have very real, and fairly powerful market forces when it comes to items from within them being traded openly on the internet. Time to stop arguing about the value of virtual, and start worrying about the reality of the virtual?



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Virtual Human? How about Virtual Voice?
Previously featured Industry News from September 2003, looking at the Vocaloid technology - the creation of virtual singers using voice fonts from previous artists.



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Virtual Limbs: Living with three arms
Virtual Reality is just beginning to head down the full body sensation reproduction path. We are at the very early stages of being able to recreate parts of the physical form, entirely in the virtual. This is a concept which is likely to have very a profound effect upon how we deal with the world around us.



 

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(26/05/2007)
October 15th - 17tn
Westin Copley Plaza, Boston
Massachusetts, United States of America

The goal of this conference is to share and distribute the knowledge acquired at multiple research centers to further impro...


(15/05/2009)
Medicare won't pay for the so-called virtual colonoscopy procedure, concluding Tuesday that there's inadequate evidence to support the cheaper, less intrusive alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy.

Some experts had hoped t...


(25/10/2006)
Virtual colonoscopy uses x rays, CAT scans, MRIs and virtual reality to produce 2D and 3D images of the colon (large intestine in non-medical terminology) from the lowest part - the rectum - right up to the small intestine and display the r...


(26/05/2007)
August 20-21, 2007
The Conference Center at Harvard Medical
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, Massachusetts
United States

Virtual colonoscopy is a new developing technique providing an alternative me...


(26/05/2007)
June 4-5, 2007
The Conference Center at Harvard Medical
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, Massachusetts
United States

Virtual Colonoscopy is a new developing technique providing an alternative method...