Virtual Reality in Medicine and Radiology

No continuing education / Category A credit assigned to this presentation.

Presenters: Daniel J. La Russa, PhD, FCCPM (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute); Justin Sutherland, PhD MCCPM (The Ottawa Hospital)

Learning Objectives:
– Classify experiences as virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR)
– Stratify medical applications of VR/AR according to the role of the clinician or patient, and according to the role of VR/AR in an intervention (planning, transfer, guidance)
– Describe ways of visualizing medical images and models in 3D using VR and AR
– List considerations for implementing VR/AR technologies into clinical workflows