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A medical investigative system in which a person interacts with the system to interject information that is utilized by the system to establish non-restricted environmental modeling of the realities of surrogate conditions to be encountered with invasive or semi-invasive procedures. This is accompli

A medical investigative system in which a person interacts with the system to interject information that is utilized by the system to establish non-restricted environmental modeling of the realities of surrogate conditions to be encountered with invasive or semi-invasive procedures. This is accomplished by video display of simulated internal conditions that appear life-like, as well as by display of monitor data including, for example, blood pressure, respiration, heart beat rate and the like.

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An investigative medical system comprising: (A) a physical model representing physically and spatially at least that portion of a patient on which a selected medical procedure is to be performed; (B) at least one implement representing a medical procedural tool normally employed in conducting said s

An investigative medical system comprising: (A) a physical model representing physically and spatially at least that portion of a patient on which a selected medical procedure is to be performed; (B) at least one implement representing a medical procedural tool normally employed in conducting said selected medical procedure; (C) moving means for moving and controlling said implement within said model; (D) first memory means for storing data representing the internal landscape of said at least that portion of said patient; and (E) means interconnected with said moving means and responsive to the position of said implement for producing and displaying a visual presentation of that portion of said internal landscape representing the region adjacent the active portion of said implement.