Augmented reality Ultrasound

The future of ultrasound? An augmented reality Ultrasound training system. Instead of just looking on the screen you keep looking at and through the patient. In this case they do this using a phantom and preacquired datasets.

Augmented reality use for Medical Education

Augmented reality is really catching on with many applications arising in entertainment and commerce varying from TV show characters coming alive using a card in front of your webcam to augmented reality business cards. However, also in the field of medical imaging informatics, augmented reality could play a role.
This movie shows a nice application of augmented reality using gliphs for medical education.

Mirracle - Using Microsoft Kinect for interactive, augmented reality, anatomy education

Research groups at the technical university Munchen in Germany have developed an augmented reality system to study anatomy.

Their second version of the augmented reality magic mirror uses the Microsoft Kinect to detect a user standing in front of a screen. Subsequently, augmented reality is used to overlay a volume visualization of a CT onto the user. Using gestures the user can select 2D slices. The prototype was presented at the open day of Klinikum Ingolstadt. For more info see www.mirracle.de

Great development for education, but it also might find its way into clinical practice.