Video Game Technology May Help Surgeons Operate On Beating Hearts

Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 22:42 in Health & Medicine

To do complex cardiac repairs while the heart is still beating, surgeons need images that show depth -- especially when navigating inside the hearts of children and newborns. Now cardiac surgeons report good results with a technology borrowed from the gaming industry: flickering glasses that provide stereoscopic vision.

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