Doctors could soon be using the same technology to operate on heart patients that gamers use to view 3D images, according to a National Institutes of Heath study featured in the June Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
The stereo glasses technology has been put to use during animal operations by cardiac surgeons from Children's Hospital Boston, who can better gauge depth when diving into a patient's body. It could be used on children in beating-heart surgery as soon as this year.
Robert Howe, PhD, of Harvard University, came up with the idea to borrow the technology from video games that splits computer images in two and displays them at slightly different angles to present the images as holograms. "You feel like you're inside the heart chamber," said Nikolay Vasilyev, MD, of Children's department of cardiac surgery, in a statement (photo above comes courtesy of Vasilyev).
The system used in the study could handle and render 30MB of data per second, and the renderer was on an nVidia GeForce FX 7800.
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