Virtual reality as a tool for learning and scientific discovery with moelcular imaging

Summary

This research project is split into two components and is designed to assess the educational value of providing a virtual reality (VR) experience to students and as a tool for communicating complex data to a multidisciplinary team of researchers. This will be achieved using a VR platform that has been developed to show molecular imaging data from a preclinical study. The VR platform has been developed from data collected by the team at the University of Queensland (myself, Nicholas L. Fletcher, and Kristofer J. Thurecht) from previously published work. This data was transformed into a virtual reality environment by the team at the University of New South Wales (Andrew Lilja and John McGhee).

People

This project is part of an ongoing collaboration with the 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab (3DVAL) team headed by Associate Professor John McGhee at the University of New South Wales. People involved in the project are listed below with their roles and affiliations (see affiliations by superscript below).

  • Andrew Lilja3,4
  • John McGhee3,4
  • Nicholas L. Fletcher1,2,4
  • Kristofer J. Thurecht1,2,4,5

Affiliations

  1. Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
  2. Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
  3. University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent BioNano Science and Technology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
  5. ARC Training Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

Outputs

Publications & Presentations

Design-led 3D visualization of nanomedicines in virtual reality

Conference Proceedings
Lilja, Andrew R. and Strong, Campbell W. and Bailey, Benjamin J. and Thurecht, Kristofer J. and Houston, Zachary H. and Fletcher, Nicholas L. and McGhee, John B.
{journal}Design-led 3D visualization of nanomedicines in virtual reality, {year}
Publication year: 1950