High Performance Visualization in a Hospital Operating Theatre

Authors:
Nigel W. John
Affiliations:
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Venue:
TPCG '03 Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2003
Year:
2003

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Abstract

This paper describes an innovative system called Op3Dthat delivers high performance visualisation to a hospitaloperating theatre. This is the first time that a hepato-pancreaticsurgeon has been able to benefit from 3Dvisualisation tools at the sharp end of his clinicalpractice. Early results are supporting our hypothesis thatinteractive access to 3D visualisation and reconstructionfrom the operating theatre improves the prospect ofsuccessful resection of hepato-pancreatic tumours (andcould easily be exploited in other surgical areas too). Theimplementation of the system is discussed in detail,including all of the software and hardware componentsinvolved. The paper ends with a discussion of the futurepotential of the system to take advantage of highperformance computing, visual area networking, and theGrid.