Virtual Reality Simulators in Gynecological Endoscopy: a Surging New Wave
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VR-based surgical simulator systems offer a very elegant approach to enriching and enhancing traditional training in endoscopic surgery. They generate state-of-the-art “virtual” endoscopic views of surgical scenarios with high realism in surgical fields particularly in endoscopic surgery where they help in surgical navigation too. Thus, simulators help emulate with a high degree of accuracy the anatomy of “virtual” organs, “virtual” tissues, and “virtual” vessels not just in visualization but also in feel, now even possible using “virtual” instruments in a “virtual” operating theater with a “virtual” surgeon.
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