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My inspiration for developing virtual colonoscopy (VC) was born of the marriage of two very different technologies—each significant in its own right but never before brought together. As a Winthrop fellow in Body Imaging/3D Imaging research at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1992 to 1993, I was exposed to many new and exciting technologies, including the introduction of spiral computed tomography (CT) scanning and the latest in virtual reality (VR) computer processing. It occurred to me early on that the computer technology I used to operate a flight simulator game on my home computer might also allow me to navigate the volume of data provided by spiral CT. In other words, combining these two technologies would enable me literally to travel inside the human body.
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Vining, D.J. (2003). Virtual Colonoscopy: The Inside Story. In: Dachman, A.H. (eds) Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21558-7_1
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