In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, a medical team and its submarine are shrunk and injected into the bloodstream of a patient to make repairs from inside the body. Four decades later, engineers at Iowa State have created virtual-reality software that allows doctors to travel through patients’ bodies to examine inside the heart, lungs, and other organs. BodyViz renders three-dimensional images from two-dimensional plates created by body scanning technology such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed axial tomography (CAT scan).
The company’s demonstration video: