MAR: Depth Perception

Medical Augmented Reality

Computer Assisted Medical Procedures Institute at the Technische Universitat Munchen aims to bring technological innovation to medicine. CAMP is chaired by Prof. Nassir Navab.

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[DerUnbekannte]

pretty awesome, but I fail to see the usefulness

[campTUM]

@DerUnbekannte

we want to use this for surgeries to allow a surgeon looking inside the patient. this would improve especially minimally invasive surgeries

[LamaPaj]

@seanwasere

This is not a xray.

[seanwasere]

We could all have one of these at home,

then we could detect if we had a broken bone or not.

And if we did have a broken bone,

We would need to visit the doctor,

who would also put one of these on there heads

[noahraymond24]

they could somehow integrate it with an MRI

[cetko13]

well, it would be a 3D scan, like the one of the brain, and then used on the patient, for a beter view, though there's not a way to 3D scan like THAT, it would help medicine school, to make better doctors

[twdarkflame]

The images can come from cat/mri scans of the patient.

[chrisbich]

Hi, acctually we visualize patient spezific data. In the girl's case we used a CT scan of her head. We think of different intraoperative applications such as surgical navigation. However, education, simulation, training might be another good target application.

[onlyontuesdays99]

Good point. This, however, also shows depth perception, something that normal diagrams won't show. This is a real-time simulation, not a pre-recorded and edited video.

[chrisbich]

Kerbii, we register here 3D bones structure taken from CT scans with the thorax phantom and the lady and then fuse colors of video data and such bone structures using a technique known as ghosting.

The intent of this kind of Augmented Reality scene is to use it during surgery for navigation procedures, e.g. finding the tumor or guiding a surgical drill or other instruments inside the body.