3D computer patient ‘avatars’ are virtual guinea pigs

The field of medicine has now advanced to a point where doctors are able to perform a trial treatment on a virtual patient, and depending on the reaction in the virtual patient ‘avatar’, a more accurate treatment can be formulated before being prescribed to the actual patient in real life. This is already happening in the UK, where doctors are able to create a digital 3D replica of a patient using their own medical data, and the detailed simulation that follows after that will alert doctors to potential (and of course, unwanted) side-effects – before it even happens to the actual patient.

This will certainly reduce the risk of something going wrong after a treatment, and in due time, it might even be the perfect simulator for doctors should the technology be advanced enough to accommodate a potential scenario of a surgery.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Medical
Tags: 3D