Unmet Need
Surgical procedures rely on the surgeon’s estimation of an internal target using anatomical landmarks, which can lead to errors and poor surgical outcome. To address this, existing surgical navigation systems provide extra guidance for the surgeon. However, these systems lack portability and require surgeons to look at a separate monitor, which can be difficult without good hand eye coordination.
Technology Overview
The technology is an interactive portable head mounted navigation system that is compact and uses a combination of the patient’s medical images and a marker system to overlay an aligned target onto the patient’s anatomy. It uses multi modal tracking, electromagnetic and embedded stereo tracking, for improved accuracy. In addition to surgical navigation, its wireless connection feature allows for tele-mentoring by a remote expert.
Stage of Development
Prototype.
Publications
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