Virtual Reality Modeling Guided Separation of Conjoined Twins
“According to Gemini Untwined, the London-based charity that facilitated the procedure, the Brazilian twins Arthur and Bernardo were born craniopagus, an extremely rare condition in which twins are born with their skulls and, often, some brain tissue and blood vessels fused together. . . . The bicontinental team used CT and MRI scans of the twins to build VR models of the twins, then spent months using the technology to run through the surgery—which was one of the most complex separation procedures on record. It was also at risk of additional complications because, at almost four years old, Arthur and Bernardo are “the oldest craniopagus twins with a fused brain to be separated,” per Gemini Untwined.” MORE
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