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To: kili who wrote (2387)	4/8/1999 5:41:00 PM
From: BDR	Respond to of 7720

<<Now, let's combine 3D & Medical: Diagnostics use MRT to create images of the patients inner secrets. Could that image be channeled through VRD and superimposed for giving a surgeon a really good view of what he/she is up to during an operation? Just a thought..> MVIS has referred mostly to laparoscopic applications where a stereoptic image would add value. Currently endoscopic procedures are done while viewing the image produced by a single camera projected on a TV screen over your shoulder somewhere. The depth perception added by binocular vision would be nice; the convenience of having the image projected in front of you would save a lot of neck/back strain and probably make the technique easier for new surgeons to learn. They also mention providing information from imaging modalities to guide the surgeon during an operation and cite back and brain surgery as examples. This technique would be helpful anytime one is operating and important structures are not in clear view. I would sure like to know exactly where the vessels leading to and from the kidney are, where they branch, etc., before I stumble across them after poking and feeling blindly for them amid the surrounding tissues. That information is available from 3-D reconstructions that can now be obtained routinely from spiral CTs and the images are getting better all the time. Projecting that in front of me in the proper orientation as I operate would be really nice. Take it one step further and imagine an imaging modality capturing in real time images of deep structures and of functions such as blood flow through vessels, brain activity, etc. and VRD projecting the realtime images to the surgeon as he operates! As far as what MVIS is really doing to make any of this happen- I know as much as you do.