Virtual Reality Imaging Gives Surgeons a Better View of Patient Anatomy
“When Gina Milner needed a new heart valve, she was surprised to learn that a virtual-reality tool could help her get one.
Milner’s doctors at the Adult Congenital Heart Program, a joint program of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Health Care, hoped to perform her valve replacement through a much smaller incision than usual. To figure out if this approach would be safe, surgeon Katsuhide Maeda, MD, used a new computer program that transformed Milner’s CT scans into a 3D image of her heart, lungs and chest cavity. He then donned a pair of 3D glasses and stood in front of a special computer monitor that let him rotate and examine every layer of her cardiothoracic anatomy from any angle. The technology, called True 3D, helped Maeda anticipate what anatomic structures he would see behind a small surgical opening at each stage of Milner’s surgery…”
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