Philips, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, unveiled augmented reality surgical navigation technology for open and minimally invasive spine surgery, according to techseen.
Here are five insights:
1. Philips manufactures hybrid operating room solutions, and with this AR-based technology it is expanding its reach into spine, cranial and trauma procedures.
2. The AR technology builds off of the company's low-dose X-ray system, utilizing high-resolution optical cameras.
3. techseen reports the navigation system "combines the external view captured by the cameras and the internal 3-D view of the patient acquired by the X-ray system to construct a 3-D augmented reality view of the patient's external and internal anatomy."
4. Philips designed the AR-based navigation system to enhance procedure planning, tool navigation and implant accuracy.
5. Philips has installed more than 750 of it hybrid OR solutions globally.