Tag: Virtual reality

Virtual ACC: Renal denervation bests sham control to safely lower blood...

Three months after undergoing renal denervation, patients with untreated high blood pressure had statistically significant reductions in average blood pressure over 24 hours compared...
thyroid

“The opportunity is enormous”: CIO attendees experience thyroid ablation case in...

The 11th Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO; 11–13 October, Miami, USA) hosted a virtual reality (VR) case presentation, where delegates placed their smartphones...
voice

Voice recognition to play “a huge part” in future interventional procedures

 Kevin Seals (San Francisco, USA) and Andrew Taylor (San Francisco, USA) talk to Interventional News at SIR 2019 about the current and future use...
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Virtual reality enables real-time, internal view of patient anatomy during treatment

Immersive virtual reality (VR) may enable interventional radiologists to improve treatments using real-time 3D images from inside a patient’s blood vessels. New research presented...
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Mentice donates IR simulators to Rad-Aid

Endovascular therapy training provider Mentice has signed an agreement to donate its virtual reality-based simulators to humanitarian organisation Rad-Aid for use in interventional radiology...

Augmented reality surgical technology unveiled by Philips and Microsoft

At the MWC (25–26 February, Barcelona, Spain), formerly the Mobile World Congress, Philips unveiled a unique mixed reality concept developed in partnership with Microsoft for...

Immersive nature of virtual reality will “herald a sea change” in...

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) debuted the first-ever virtual reality 360 (VR360) training video showcasing an endovascular transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure...

Interactive virtual reality enhances physicians’ treatment planning of complex conditions

Virtual reality (VR) provides interventional radiologists with a 360-degree view of internal anatomy to enhance procedure planning. Interactive VR brings medical images to life on...

Virtual reality enters the IR suite

Whether you are chasing Pikachu in the park or planning an IR procedure, virtual reality is increasingly "part of life" and has huge opportunities...