There is now a Chinese VES version 1.1 dissection manual ready for download. We are very thankful for the translation and editing done by Dr. Xiaowen Huang, Tongji Medical College, Wuhan, China. We hope that this manual will make it easier for the Chinese users to get started.
We are proud to present a 32 bit version of our simulator. It can be found in the download section.
Best regards from the VES team.
This post is just to inform you that a 32 bit version is soon to be released. I am leaving for vacation the next week, and when i return the 32 bit version will be my main priority.
We are proud to present the next version of the Visible Ear Simulator. The simulator is now ready for download in the download section. Please report any kind of trouble you encounter during installation and usage.
We are working on the last fixes on the upcoming version 1.1, and this will be available in the download section soon as well as a new manual.
Preview of the bone drilling tutorial
The next version will feature a interactive drilling tutorial, where the user follows a step by step manual and the highlighted bone indicates what should be drilled away in the current step.
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We have been working on two projects, since last update. First we are soon ready to release an updated version 1.1 of the simulator. This version has been improved in several ways and will feature a complete surgical tutorial, with some simple evaluation metrics. More about this as soon as we are ready to release.
And secondly a lot of progress has been made one the VES 2.0, where we are able to show the whole data set and we are currently working on some soft tissues simulation. Here is a early screenshot of the temporal bone in VES 2.0.
Now there is also a stereoscopic version of our drilling manual (Link removed 18-10-2011. View new link in the download section.)
Things are starting to move for the Visible Ear simulation project, the development for the next version has begun. And today we proudly present the VES dissection Manual.
http://ves.cg.alexandra.dk/wp-content/manuals/VES dissection manual.pdf (Link removed 18-10-2011. View link to current manual version in the download section).
This pdf manual will guide you step by step on how to use the simulator and how to perform a complete resection of the mastoid. If you read the manual on your PC you may simultaneously view the instructional videos on YouTube just by clicking the URL links in the text.
Check out the gallery where some of the dissection videos have been added.
We are working on a tool to create the data for the next version of our simulator. This is a important because a good voxel tool allow us to quickly make different versions of the extensive Visible Ear Data.
Today we visited Oticon, and had a very nice meeting with the some guys from the Oticon medical department. Maybe they will be able to use the simulator when we develop a realistic tissue simulation.
