A new 3D virtual heart may help doctors identify which cardiac patients are most at risk for life-threatening arrhythmia and need a defibrillator to keep their heartbeats steady and strong. The ...

This type of model, known as a virtual twin, can do more than identify medical problems—it can provide detailed diagnostic insights. In Boston, the team used the model to predict how the child’s heart ...

Implanting a small electrical defibrillation device near the heart to sense the onset of arrhythmia and jolt the heart back to a normal sinus rhythm can often be the difference between life and death ...

EPFL mathematician Alfio Quarteroni and his team are building a virtual heart model based on personalized medical images that may one day help cardiologists and cardiac surgeons non-invasively ...

Jonathan Awori, MD, MS, MFA, isn't embarrassed to say it took him a long time to completely understand the intricate workings of the heart. He says he isn't alone; many aspiring doctors and nurses don ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University used a proprietary 3D virtual heart simulator to preoperatively identify areas of cardiac tissue that required surgical treatment for an irregular heartbeat, ...

new video loaded: Brains, Hearts and Heroin Addiction: Medicine in VR transcript Addiction treatment, heart surgery and brain research are just some of the areas where virtual reality is helping to ...

One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children's Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child's heart. The ...