Medical Animation News

To illustrate how flu viruses can become resistant to prescription medications, an epidemiologist from Weill Cornell Medical College recently made use of a specially designed medical animation.

Created as part of a hypothetical case vignette appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the medical visualization depicts how the brain shifts and rebounds within the skull during a slip-and-fall injury.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) research isn't always easy to comprehend, even for healthcare professionals, which is one reason why the results of a newly published study have been spelled out in a short 3D medical animation.

It's no secret that television personality and cardiothoracic surgeon Mehmet Oz loves to use medical animation clips to explain diseases and clinical concepts. They regularly appear on his daytime TV show. In a recent interview, Dr. Oz directly addressed the utility of a good medical visualization.

It is easy to take modern medical advances for granted, particularly when no living person can recall functioning without this or that innovation. However, a simple 3D medical animation can make patients truly appreciate how lucky they are to live in the age of anesthesia.

Whether it is intended to educate patients or instruct doctors-in-training, a cell-level 3D medical animation of the human brain is informative in a way that few other visualizations can match. And it can be entertaining, too!

If you want a detailed depiction of the brain's neurons and their interconnections, where do you go? To a 3D medical animation studio, of course!

Doctors, patients and pharmaceutical representatives are coming to rely on the 3D medical animation as a way to convey complex concepts in a simple, interactive way. Today's 3D medical visualization technology is light-years ahead of where it used to be.

It seems like no matter where you look, 3D technology is either just about to be released or is finally at hand. Whether it's a television set, a touchscreen tablet, a photograph or a medical animation, chances are good that it's available in stereoscopic 3D.

A quick internet search will tell you that the term "medical animation" refers to a clip that uses computer-generated imagery to recreate in virtual space a surgery, medical procedure, physiological function or pharmaceutical mechanism of action.