Are augmented reality headsets in surgery a dead end?

Augmented reality in surgery.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the history and current knowledge of computer-augmented reality in the field of surgery and its potential goals in education, surgeon training, and patient treatment. DATA SOURCES National Library of Medicine's database and additional library searches. STUDY SELECTION Only articles suited to surgical sciences with a well-defined aim of study, methodology, and precise d...

Augmented Reality in surgery

Augmented Reality in Laparoscopic Surgery

A trend in abdominal surgery is the transition from open procedures to minimally invasive laparoscopic interventions, where visual feedback to surgical staff is only available through the laparoscope camera and direct palpation of organs is impossible. To successfully perform such sophisticated interventions, the provision of additional intraoperative feedback can be of great help to the surgic...

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Plastic Surgery: A Review

Recently, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have received increasing attention, with the development of VR/AR devices such as head-mounted displays, haptic devices, and AR glasses. Medicine is considered to be one of the most effective applications of VR/AR. In this article, we describe a systematic literature review conducted to investigate the state-of-the-art VR/AR technology r...

Augmented Reality Assisted Sinus Surgery

In this paper, we propose an augmented reality (AR) assisted sinus surgery system, in which the surgical outcome is improved by providing a new way of visualization which embeds virtual environments into the real scene. Such an AR assisted system, with a preoperative CT scan registered and displayed throughout the surgery, would provide the surgeon visibility of the nearby structures surroundin...