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Multipurpose virtual reality environment for biomedical and health applications

Jordi Torner, Stavros Skouras, José L. Molinuevo, Juan D. Gispert, Francisco Alpiste
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/366302
Jordi Torner
1Department of Engineering Design of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, 08034 Spain (e-mail: )
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Stavros Skouras
2Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Barcelona, 08005 Spain (e-mail: )
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José L. Molinuevo
3Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Barcelona, 08003 Spain and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, 28029 Spain (e-mail: )
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Juan D. Gispert
4Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Barcelona, 08005 Spain and CIBER Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Madrid, 28029 Spain (e-mail: )
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Francisco Alpiste
5Department of Engineering Design of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, 08034 Spain (e-mail: )
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Abstract

Virtual reality is a trending, widely accessible, contemporary technology of increasing utility to biomedical and health applications. However, most implementations of VR environments are tailored to specific applications. We describe the complete development of a novel, open-source virtual reality environment that is suitable for multipurpose biomedical and healthcare applications. The developed environment simulates an immersive (first-person perspective) run in the countryside, in a virtual landscape with various salient features. The utility of the developed VR environment has been validated via two test usage cases: an application in the context of motor rehabilitation following injury of the lower limbs and an application in the context of real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback, to regulate brain function in specific regions of interest. The resulting test applications suggest that the implemented approach is robust, versatile and efficient. Both applications are publicly available via a GitHub repository, in support of the Open Science initiative. We anticipate our contribution to catalyze further progress and replicability with regards to the usage of virtual reality in biomedical and health applications.

Index Terms— Motor rehabilitation, neurofeedback, virtual reality.

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Multipurpose virtual reality environment for biomedical and health applications
Jordi Torner, Stavros Skouras, José L. Molinuevo, Juan D. Gispert, Francisco Alpiste
bioRxiv 366302; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/366302
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Multipurpose virtual reality environment for biomedical and health applications
Jordi Torner, Stavros Skouras, José L. Molinuevo, Juan D. Gispert, Francisco Alpiste
bioRxiv 366302; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/366302

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