Information Technologies in Medicine

VOLUME 1: MEDICAL SIMULATION AND EDUCATION.
 
PREFACE.
 
PART I: ARTIFICAL ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICAL STIMULATOR/EDUCATION.
 
1. Virtual Reality in Medicine and Biology (Richard A. Robb).
 
2. VEs in Medicine; Medicine in Ves (Adrie C. M. Dumay).
 
3. Virtual Reality and Its Integration into a Twenty-First Century Telemedical Information Society (Andy Marsh).
 
4. Virtual Reality and Medicine?Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (Joseph M. Rosen).
 
5. Virtual Reality Laboratory for Medical Applications (Gabriele Faulkner).
 
6. Medical Applications of Virtual Reality in Japan (Makoto Yoshizawa, Ken-ichi Abe, Tomoyuki Yambe, and Shin-ichi Nitta).
 
7. Perceptualization of Biomedical Data (Emil Jovanov, Dusan Starcevic, and Vlada Radivojevic).
 
8. Anatomic VisualizeR: Teaching and Learning Anatomy with Virtual Reality (Helene Hoffman, Margaret Murray, Robert Curlee, and Alicia Fritchle).
 
9. Future Technologies for Medical Applications (Richard M. Satava).
 
INDEX.
 
VOLUME 2: REHABILITATION AND TREATMENT.
 
PREFACE.
 
PART I: TREATMENT.
 
1. Neuro/Orthopedic Rehabilitation and Disability Solutions Using Virtual Reality Technology (Walter J. Greenleaf).
 
2. The Use of Virtual Reality Technology in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (Brenda K. Wiederhold and Mark D. Wiederhold).
 
3. Virtual Reality for Health Care (L. Beolchi and G. Riva).
 
4. Robot-Assisted Microsurgery Development at JPL (Hari Das, Tim Ohm, Curtis Boswell, Rob Steele, and Guillermo Rodriguez).
 
5. Virtual Reality and the Vestibular System: A Brief Review (Erik Viirre, Zsolt Lorant, Mark Draper, and Thomas A. Furness, III).
 
PART II: TELEMEDICINE AND TELESURGERY.
 
6. Computer Imagery and Multimedia Techniques for Supporting Telemedicine Diagnoses (Qinglian Guo, Katsunobu Muroi, and Mieko Ohsuga).
 
7. Implementing a Picture-Achieving

ANDY MARSH is a researcher at the National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece. Metin Akay, PhD, is an interim chair and Professor of Bioengineering in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering at Arizona State University (ASU). He is Editor of the IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering and the author, coauthor, or editor of fourteen books. His current research interests at the ASU Neural Engineering and Informatics, Wearable Technology, and Sensors Labs include the dynamics of motor function in Parkinson and post-stroke disease subjects, and the effect of developmental abnormalities and maturation on the dynamics of respiration.