The Doctor Will See Through You Now
Recently I read an article about an Israel-based company, RealView Imaging, creating holographic projectors that can scan a patient and then create a real-time hologram that can be manipulated with your hands or a stylus.
First of all, the machine repeatedly scans the patient to create an image of the organ, and it is then projected through the hologram, which can then be moved an turned and measured. Apparently this works by having a half sphere reflecting light at a certain point, which then goes to your retina, producing a color image just floating in free space.
For example, they used this machine during a heart procedure in a hospital in Israel, and they produced the image of the boy's heart on the machine, and you could see what was happening real-time through the hologram. The company says that doctors need to be able to visually interact with the object, not just recreate it in their mind, we receive a lot of data through our eyes.
In conclusion, I think this could be a very useful and cool machine to have in the hospital!
First of all, the machine repeatedly scans the patient to create an image of the organ, and it is then projected through the hologram, which can then be moved an turned and measured. Apparently this works by having a half sphere reflecting light at a certain point, which then goes to your retina, producing a color image just floating in free space.
For example, they used this machine during a heart procedure in a hospital in Israel, and they produced the image of the boy's heart on the machine, and you could see what was happening real-time through the hologram. The company says that doctors need to be able to visually interact with the object, not just recreate it in their mind, we receive a lot of data through our eyes.
In conclusion, I think this could be a very useful and cool machine to have in the hospital!
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