Hologram display during cardiac surgery

For the first time, a team at Washington University in St. Louis has used a holographic display in performing heart surgery.  “[they] created software for the Microsoft HoloLens headset that converts the data from the catheters fed into the patient’s heart into a geometrical holographic image that hovers over the patient. The headset, which weighs roughly a pound, allows the physician to take control of the procedure by using his or her gaze to guide the controls and to keep hands free and sterile. Their system, Enhanced Electrophysiology Visualization and Interaction System (?LVIS), provides a 3D digital image of the patient’s electroanatomic maps that provide a picture of the inside of the heart, which they can measure and manipulate during the procedure.” MORE

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