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The Effect of Virtual Reality on Temporal Bone Anatomy Evaluation and Performance by Tomi Timonen; Aarno Dietz; Pia Linder; Antti Lehtimäki; Heikki Löppönen; Antti-Pekka Elomaa; Matti Iso-Mustajärvi is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract ## Purpose There is only limited data on the application of virtual reality (VR) for the evaluation of temporal bone anatomy. The aim of the present study was to compare the VR environment to traditional cross-sectional viewing of computed tomography images in a simulated preoperative planning setting in novice and expert surgeons. ## Methods A novice (n = 5) and an expert group (n = 5), based on their otosurgery experience, were created. The participants were asked to identify 24 anatomical landmarks, perform 11 distance measurements between surgically relevant anatomical structures and 10 fiducial markers on five cadaver temporal bones in both VR environment and cross-sectional viewings in PACS interface. The data on performance time and user-experience (i.e., subjective validation) were collected. ## Results The novice group made significantly more errors (p < 0.001) and with significantly longer performance time (p = 0.001) in cross-sectional viewing than the expert group. In the VR environment, there was no significant differences (errors and time) between the groups. The performance of novices improved faster in the VR. The novices showed significantly faster task

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Author

Tomi Timonen; Aarno Dietz; Pia Linder; Antti Lehtimäki; Heikki Löppönen; Antti-Pekka Elomaa; Matti Iso-Mustajärvi

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)