Title Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Low End Interactive Image-Directed Neurosurgery Update on Rudimentary Augmented Reality Used in Epilepsy Surgery -- Chapter 2. The Virtual Aneurysm Virtual Reality in Endovascular Therapy -- Chapter 3. Initial Clinical Experience with an Interactive Volume Sonography Visualization System -- Chapter 4. Applied Virtual Reality for Simulation of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP) -- Chapter 5. Cranial Base Tumor Visualization through High-Performance Computing -- Chapter 6. Virtual Environments Technology To Aid Needle Biopsies of the Breast -- Chapter 7. Two-and Three-Dimensional Imaging for Interventional MRI and CT Guidance -- Chapter 8. MRI-and CT-Scopic Microsurgery and Drug Installation for Outpatient Treatments -- Chapter 9. Distributed Medical Intelligence A Systems Approach for Developing and Integrative Health Care Information Distribution Infrastructure -- Chapter 10. Integrated Medical Environments Magnifying the Healing Power of Information -- Chapter 11. The Evolution of Virtual Reality from Surgical Training to the Development of a Simulator for Health Care Delivery A Review -- Chapter 12. Medical Virtual Reality The Current Status of the Future -- Chapter 13. Advanced Telepresence Surgery System Development -- Chapter 14. An Interactive Visual Man-Patient Interface for Semlmmersive Endoscopic Surgery -- Chapter 15. Interactive Operation Planning and Control with VIRIM -- Chapter 16. Three-Dimensional Computer-Assisted Design of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery Procedures -- Chapter 17. Geometric and Physical Representations for a Simulator of Hepatic Surgery -- Chapter 18. Virtual Endoscopy of the Head and Neck Diagnosis Using Three-Dimensional Visualization and Virtual Representation -- Chapter 19. Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation in Endoscopic Urologie Surgery