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Designing cranial implants in a haptic augmented reality environment

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Medical sculptors and neurosurgeons create virtual 3D cranial models based on patient CT data superimposed over their hands as if they were sculpting physical models.

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                                  cover image Communications of the ACM
                                  Communications of the ACM  Volume 47, Issue 8
                                  Interactive immersion in 3D graphics
                                  August 2004
                                  93 pages
                                  ISSN:0001-0782
                                  EISSN:1557-7317
                                  DOI:10.1145/1012037
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