VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education
Cancer is the cause of over 15% of deaths globally. A common form of cancer treatment is radiation therapy, however students learning radiation therapy have limited access to practical training opportunities due to high demand upon Medical Linear Particle Accelerator (LINAC) equipment. Simulation of radiation therapy can provide an effective training solution, which has proven to be effective through the use of state-of-the-art simulation systems. Such simulation systems are still expensive, do not provide collaborative features, and interactivity with the patient which is necessary for effective training is limited. To overcome these issues, we have developed LINACVR, a collaborative Virtual Reality radiation (VR)
therapy simulation prototype that provides an immersive training solution. We evaluated LINACVR with 15 radiation therapy students and educators. The results indicated that LINACVR would be an effective and cost-effective alternative solution for radiation therapy compared to state-of-the-art simulators.
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- Haydn Banniser, Ben Selwyn-Smith, Craig Anslow, Brian Robinson, Paul Kane, and Aidan Leong. Collaborative VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education. Chapter in Digital Anatomy: Applications of Virtual, Mixed, and Augment Reality (Editors J.F Uhl, J. Jorge, D.S. Kope, P.F. Campos), Springer, 2021.
- A new reality for curing cancer , October, 2020.
- Haydn Bannister, Ben Selwyn-Smith, Jiaheng Wang, Amy Wilson, Craig Anslow, Rafael Kuffner do Anjos, Daniel Medeiros, Brian Robinson, Aidan Leong, and Paul Kane. LINACVR: VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI), Brisbane, Australia, 2019.
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