Augmented Reality in Surgery

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...

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...

Augmented Reality in Minimally Invasive Surgery

The advantages of the Minimally Invasive Surgery are evident for the patients, but these techniques have some limitations for the surgeons. In medicine, the Augmented Reality (AR) technology allows surgeons to have a sort of “Xray” vision of the patient’s body and can help them during the surgical procedures. In this paper we present two applications of Augmented Reality that could be used as s...