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Minimally invasive surgery (MIS), including laparoscopic surgery (LS), is beneficial in terms of the improved recovery of the patient, including shorter convalescence times, less postoperative pain, and less scarring. Training surgeons in these new techni

The field of surgical simulation is fairly crowded with many products and research groups developing physical and virtual simulators. Much of this previous work is in simulating minimally invasive surgeries. The considerable body of work generated in de

This proposal is to develop an integrated Collaborative Information Infrastructure for Planning, Operations and Evaluation (CIIPOE). The CIIPOE will include capabilities for critical information integration, COA development and evaluation, operations pla

To address the OSD need for web-based, Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)-compliant, photorealistic, virtual medical training tools in a serious medical game, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Serious Medical Online/

Web based training has matured into fully immersive, interactive scenarios that enhance the student"s retention of critical study information through experience based simulation. Creation and use of web based Serious Games can be quite complicated, depen

MedWorld will apply virtual world gaming techniques to enable military medical personnel to experience the impact of real world conditions in performance of their duties, whether they are on the battlefield or in a stateside hospital. MedWorld is struc

To address the Office of Secretary of Defense"s need for a synthetic tissue trainer, Physical Optics Corporation proposes to develop a Synthetic Human Medical (SY-MAN) Trainer to limit live animal use. The SY-MAN trainer is based on a combination of multi

We propose to develop a family of stand-alone synthetic tissue/organ training systems to replace live animal tissue and cadaver training for the Air Force Medical Modeling & Simulation Program, as well as for other surgery training facilities. The develop

Although many surgical simulators exist on the market today, they are limited in their ability to replicate live tissue and how it responds to injury and treatment, decreasing the simulator"s utility in training medical personnel. Infoscitex has develope

In this project, Parabon NanoLabs (PNL) will demonstrate the feasibility of extending its Essemblix(tm) Drug Development Platform, a combination of computer-aided design (CAD) software and DNA nano-fabrication technology, to produce Essemblix-V, a platform for creating artificial vaccines from a predefined set of"building block molecules"assembled on DNA origami. Given an epitope for a potential ...