"Clinical 3D Applications for minimal-invasive interventions enabled by gaming industry hardware"
In the foreseeable future, more and more open surgery will be replaced by minimally invasive procedures. In such procedures, the patient is treated through small cavaties by the means of catheters and endoscopes, etc. During these minimally invasive medical treatment the clinician relies on radiological images, often produced in real-time, to guide the intervention. Already today, the amount of image guided interventions and therapy is rapidly increasing, because of associated better clinical outcome and reduced patient strain. Philips Healthcare, as a manufacturer of imaging equipment (such as MRI, CT, ultrasound and C-arm X-ray) plays a key role in the transition of open surgery to image guided interventions and therapy. Since more complex interventions are also making the transitions to minimally invasive treatment, there is an increasing demand for smart software and hardware that provide exactly the right combination of information to the physician at the right time. In this presentation we will show how consumer hardware, often developed for graphically advanced games, are used at Philips to create sophisticated medical applications. Especially, the 3D capabilities are exploited to combine 3D and 2D medical information in real-time, in order to provide tools that are tailored to the medical intervention.
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In the foreseeable future, more and more open surgery will be replaced by minimally invasive procedures. In such procedures, the patient is treated through small cavaties by the means of catheters and endoscopes, etc. During these minimally invasive medical treatment the clinician relies on radiological images, often produced in real-time, to guide the intervention. Already today, the amount of image guided interventions and therapy is rapidly increasing, because of associated better clinical outcome and reduced patient strain. Philips Healthcare, as a manufacturer of imaging equipment (such as MRI, CT, ultrasound and C-arm X-ray) plays a key role in the transition of open surgery to image guided interventions and therapy. Since more complex interventions are also making the transitions to minimally invasive treatment, there is an increasing demand for smart software and hardware that provide exactly the right combination of information to the physician at the right time. In this presentation we will show how consumer hardware, often developed for graphically advanced games, are used at Philips to create sophisticated medical applications. Especially, the 3D capabilities are exploited to combine 3D and 2D medical information in real-time, in order to provide tools that are tailored to the medical intervention.
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