Rendering moist/wet materials like human anatomies for surgical simulators Real human anatomies look wet/ moist when operated. I am looking for some good methods for rendering anatomies in a virtual simulation, and hence I have done a literature survey on 'Rendering wet materials' using keywords like:

Rendering wet materials.
Rendering moist surfaces.
Rendering wet surfaces.
etc.

What I observed is, in general, people use ray-tracing methods after modeling surface with a two-layer surface reflection model, for achieving realism for wet surfaces.
What are some good rasterization methods/ approximations for the same keeping in mind real-time performance and unavailability of RTX gfx cards, as well as realism?
The reason why ray-tracing is often used for achieving as-realistic-as-possible wet appearance is their reflective behavior. A thin liquid film on the surface reflects photons like a mirror. If you target real-time rendering, you will have to fake the reflections (or rely on RTX :) There are two ways I can quickly think of: placing reflection probes in the scene using cube-maps or using screen space reflections.
Reflection probes with cube-maps

good for static scenes, you can pre-compute many of them
allow objects outside of the current viewing frustum to be seen in the mirrors
inaccurate due to limited number of probes

There is a great extensive tutorial by Sébastien Lagarde on reflections which continues (what a coincidence) with part B on wet surfaces and there is part C as well. Make sure to check them out!
Screen-space reflections

fine also for dynamic scenes
only objects in the current viewing frustum can be seen in the mirrors
accurate within the frustum

Screen space reflections are explained as part of this awesome series by David Lettier.
Subsurface scattering
Regarding the discussion on subsurface scattering, any organic tissue exposes this property. We just observe it the most on skin or leaves, but the same effect is observed inside the body. Just read section 3.3 of this paper:

One significant casual effect under endoscopic environment is a strong subsurface scattering on the surface of internal organs.

I suggest to use at least some post-processing technique for that.