Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies
SUMMIT
Viewing real surgery remotely in stereo
Stanford OR
to
Sydney,
Australia
| We were approached
by our collaborators in Sydney, CSIRO, a major R&D think-tank to put
together a teaching event that would demonstrate the value of stereo video! |
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| This was a team
effort. Extensive background
work between the Canberra team and our colleagues at Stanford got the basic
software and logistics in place. |
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| The surgeons (Pat
Cregan in Sydney, LeRoy Heinrichs and Camran Nezhat in Stanford) developed
the teaching material and organised hospital, patient and audience. Our Sydney colleagues played a major
role in setting up and fine-tuning the system in liaising with AARNet to
switch to serious bandwidth across the Pacific. |
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| Dr Nezhat and his
surgical team performed the operation. |
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| IÕm going to show
talk about this teaching event first as a technical Òproof of conceptÓ: Explain the technical environment and
then look at how it could be used to radically shift the way med students,
fellows, are taught. So just to
put the educational focus in perspectiveÉ. |
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