Holography-guided heart surgery for more precise, speedier incisions in SG

Associate Professor Theodoros Kofidis with a hologram of a heart as seen through a HoloLens 2 headset. — NG SOR LUAN/The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: A science-fiction trope has turned into reality with Singapore's first holography-guided heart surgery successfully conducted by a team of surgeons from the National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS).

The doctors, wearing holographic visors, could see a three-dimensional (3D) hologram of the patient’s heart, derived from a CT scan and projected into space, giving them a coloured “X-ray” vision of the exact inner organ anatomy and position in space, as if they could peek through the chest wall, in real time.