About BabelVR
Academic / Clinical Leads
Dr. Betty Raman & Prof. Stefan Neubauer Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR)
Dr. Jim Newton & Dr. Sam Dawkins Cardiology, John Radcliffe Hospital
Dr. Regent Lee, Prof. Ashok Handa & Prof. Freddie Hamdy Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
Video 1: Babel VR - Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Planning
Understanding and interacting with 3D biological imaging data is key to understanding biological mechanisms. Biological objects both at the macro and micro level often have complex and 3D architectures which are often difficult to interpret, measure and manipulate using traditional 2D software. We present BabelVR as a novel way to work with biological object(s) by using Virtual Reality to immerse the user in a 3D cockpit where multiple images from mixed modalities may be examined and interacted with. We demonstrate functionality that would be slow and difficult to do in traditional packages using it to measure complex 3D features to understand genotype/phenotype relationships in the skull, designing experiments in mixed modality correlative microscopy and 3D ultrasound time series visualization. BabelVR demonstrates VR’s efficacy in complex biological use cases beyond a traditional 3D viewer.
- Manipulate multiple 3D objects in VR
- Many functions for adjusting image views
- 3D annotation
- 3D measurements
- Import meshes from results of segmentation / machine learning
Gallery
Video 2: Babel VR - Loading and adjusting cutoffs - [ YouTube ]
Courtesy of Hana Mlcochova / Steve Twigg MRC WIMM
Video 3: Babel VR - Annotating a mouse skull - [ YouTube ]
Courtesy of Hana Mlcochova / Steve Twigg MRC WIMM
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