HDVR® Brings Advanced Visualization to Medical Robotics
Palo Alto, California and London, UK - Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume rendering technology, and Imperial College London, a science-based institution with a reputation for excellence in biomedical research that is consistently rated among the world's best universities, today announced a collaboration to bring High Definition Volume Rendering® to minimally invasive robotic surgery.
The Hamlyn Centre at Imperial College London is at the forefront of research and technological innovation in robot-assisted surgery. The Centre is working with Fovia on leading-edge projects that combine the unparalleled performance, quality and accuracy of High Definition Volume Rendering with advanced robotic surgery technologies.
A premier international research and teaching facility for surgical robotics, the Hamlyn Centre aims to transform conventional minimally invasive surgery by improving the consistency, accuracy and safety of surgical robots, and through the development of new paradigms for human-robot interaction. To this end, the Centre is creating the next generation of miniaturized mechatronic devices with integrated imaging and sensing, while investigating new techniques for providing synergistic control between the surgeon and robot.
Fovia's HDVR® provides a virtual roadmap for robotic surgical teams by allowing the presentation of stereo images in real-time during both the planning and interventional phases of robot-assisted surgery. The highly flexible HDVR software enables full customization of the surgeon's experience, and provides invaluable coherence between preoperative scans of a patient and views of the operative field during the procedure. HDVR greatly enhances surgical guidance by using volumetric data in addition to polygonal models of anatomical structures, allowing for greater detail, precision and accuracy. Fovia's on-the-fly, Multiple Phase Opacity Transfer Function Editor, Advanced Segmentation and Tissue Specific Lighting Controls provide maximum flexibility for faithful representation and manipulation of the desired anatomical targets.
The Hamlyn Centre's integration of High Definition Volume Rendering into its robot-assisted surgical guidance platform enables unprecedented visualization quality and promises to improve patient outcomes in minimally invasive surgical procedures. This unique collaboration bridges the gap between two influential technologies: robotic surgery and tomographic imaging.
