Doctors Can Now Use Augmented Reality to Peek Under a Patient’s Skin (Futurism)
A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has created a medical imaging system that projects scans onto a patient's body, adjusting to their underlying anatomy even as they move around.
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Compared to the very first X-ray, which was taken well over a century ago, the medical imaging technology in use today is highly impressive. We can take clear pictures of the body’s internal organs, structures, and systems, and those images can help doctors make diagnoses or recommend treatments without having to pick up a scalpel.
More recent advances in medical imaging technology enable us to capture not only still images but moving ones, too. These allow doctors to see more than just a static moment in time; they can see the organs and systems in action.
Now, researchers at the University of Alberta are using augmented reality (AR) to one-up those traditional scans.
With ProjectDR, a doctor can bring up a patient’s medical imagery (such as a CT scan, for instance) and project it directly onto the patient’s body. This allows the physician to look at the scans within the context of the patient’s un...
