A person wears virtual reality goggles to view and manipulate images in the Living Heart Project. (Photo: Courtesy of Dassault Systèmes and the Living Heart Project) Clinical trials can be very ...

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One of the challenges doctors face in diagnosing and treating abnormal heart conditions is understanding the mechanics of an individual's heart. Several companies have attempted to create usable 3D ...

The challenge: developing a realistic, reliable, and reconfigurable testing environment to advance and improve a novel heart assist device without the need for animal testing. A couple years ago, ...

Dr Julius Guccione, a 50-year-old cardiac researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was mesmerised the first time he saw a virtual image of a beating heart. He’d been using math ...

Scientists have created a new computer model of our heart that can predict side effects of drugs used to treat abnormal heart rhythms. This is the beginning of virtual drug-testing systems (pictured) ...

The Allinea Forge parallel code development suite is helping to speed up exciting computational cardiology research at the Medical University of Graz. Utilizing the power of the VSC-3 supercomputer at ...

How can you distinguish between a good surgeon and an exceptional surgeon? According to some medical experts, it's that all-too-rare ability to visualize a human organ in three dimensions from little ...

A few years ago, [Addie] over at Tymkrs put together a spooky little Halloween project: a small Propeller board that emulates the electrical signals in a heart. As a cardiac nurse, she thought her ...