Alberta researchers combine X-rays, virtual reality for new medical treatments

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A University of Alberta team has come up with a way to combine medical imaging with virtual reality to help clinicians locate and understand what's happening inside their patients' bodies as they treat them.

Bob Weber, The Canadian PressEDMONTON -- No, they're not X-ray specs.

Kawchuk and his colleagues have figured out how to use a commercially available set of virtual reality goggles to help doctors or other professionals view an X-ray superimposed on a patient's body. They can align the image with the patient in front of them. "Where does it hurt? Here? OK, now I see it in the image that goes along with it when I poke you here."

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