• Login
    View Item 
    •   Eurographics DL Home
    • Eurographics Conferences
    • EG2011
    • EG 2011 - Dirk Bartz Prize
    • View Item
    •   Eurographics DL Home
    • Eurographics Conferences
    • EG2011
    • EG 2011 - Dirk Bartz Prize
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    A Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training and Education - VERT

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    005-008.pdf (282.5Kb)
    Date
    2011
    Author
    Ward, James W.
    Phillips, R.
    Boejen, Annette
    Grau, Cai
    Jois, Deepak
    Beavis, Andy W.
    Pay-Per-View via TIB Hannover:

    Try if this item/paper is available.

    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    A report in 2007 to the UK Government identified a crisis in England for training staff and students for the radiotherapy treatment of cancer. The Hull authors have developed an immersive life size virtual environment of a radiotherapy treatment room, known as VERT, to address this problem. VERT provides the trainee with models, simulation, enhanced visualization and training aids for treatment of virtual patients in a virtual treatment room. In 2007 VERT systems for radiotherapy training were established for training purposes at the University Aarhus Hospital (Denmark), Birmingham City University (UK) and the University of Ulster (UK). There are now some 70 VERT systems around the world. This paper reports on the simulation and visualization capabilities and reports on the use of VERT from the Aarhus University hospital and on the national evaluation of VERT in the UK [AC10]. These reports clearly indicate the clinical benefit of using a virtual environment approach, such as VERT, for training and education in radiotherapy.
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings {EG2011:med:005-008,
    booktitle = {Eurographics 2011 - Dirk Bartz Prize},
    editor = {K. Buehler and A. Vilanova},
    title = {{A Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training and Education - VERT}},
    author = {Ward, James W. and Phillips, R. and Boejen, Annette and Grau, Cai and Jois, Deepak and Beavis, Andy W.},
    year = {2011},
    publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
    ISSN = {1017-4656},
    DOI = {10.2312/EG2011/med/005-008}
    }
    URI
    http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/EG2011/med/005-008
    Collections
    • EG 2011 - Dirk Bartz Prize

    Eurographics Association copyright © 2013 - 2020 
    Send Feedback | Contact - Imprint | Data Privacy Policy | Disable Google Analytics
    Theme by @mire NV
    System hosted at  Graz University of Technology.
    TUGFhA
     

     

    Browse

    All of Eurographics DLCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    BibTeX | TOC

    Create BibTeX Create Table of Contents

    Eurographics Association copyright © 2013 - 2020 
    Send Feedback | Contact - Imprint | Data Privacy Policy | Disable Google Analytics
    Theme by @mire NV
    System hosted at  Graz University of Technology.
    TUGFhA