The application of metaverse medicine in intravascular interventions:its current situation and future outlook / 介入放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

Since 2021,the term"metaverse"has attracted wide attention and become an international hot word,meanwhile,the application of metaverse in the medical field has also attracted great attention.Because of its unique advantages such as the immersive environment,the integration of virtual-real space and the characteristics of super-high simulation,the metaverse have a broad application prospect in the medical field.At present,metaverse medicine has already been applied in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases,psychological intervention,and innovative clinical teaching mode.With the increasing of innovations and applications of the technologies such as vascular interventional surgical robots,extended reality,3-D printing and others,the newly-developed metaverse medicine will be able to play an important role in facilitating interventional surgery and improving doctor training,although the application of metaverse medicine in endovascular interventional therapy is still in its developing stage now.It can be expected that with the gradual maturity of metaverse medicine,the remote-guided interventional surgeries,which can be accomplished with the help of technologies such as 5G,augmented reality(AR)and tactile internet,will become the normal work in medical practice,and,moreover,the simulation surgery training programs,which can be conducted with the help of technologies such as computer-assisted vascular intervention and virtual reality(VR),will also become the common pattern in medical teaching course.(J Intervent Radiol,2024,32:86-89)