AASU's Tilson to Lecture on the Use of VR in Medical Diagnosis and Cancer Treatment

Savannah, GA— October 22, 2004— Elwin R. Tilson, professor of radiologic sciences at Armstrong Atlantic State University, will give a lecture on "A Virtual Tour of the Human Body: The Use of VR in Medical Diagnosis and Cancer Treatment" as part of the Robert Ingram Strozier Faculty Lecture Series on November 12. The lecture will begin at 12:15 p.m. in room 156 of University Hall. It is free and open to the public.

In the last few years, two new Virtual Reality (VR) techniques of imaging the human body called volumetrics and hybrid scans have begun to revolutionize medicine. In both of these techniques, information about the structure and/or function of the body is collected using x-rays, magnetic and radiofrequency fields, radioactive pharmaceuticals, and sound waves. This information is then manipulated into a Virtual Reality model of the patient’s body that is extremely accurate and clinically useful.

This presentation will include a discussion of how this new information is being used in medicine, followed by a virtual tour of the human body, highlighting many VR images of patients.

For details, call Jacquie Fraser at 912.921.7315 or by email at fraserja@mail.armstrong.edu.