Ahead of the surgery, Narasimhan tried something she had never attempted: building a virtual-reality model of Jayden’s chest. She used a software program called Elucis, which spliced together CT scans of the baby to produce a digital clone of his anatomy. — Image by lifeforstock on Freepik
Jayden Mirville-Beamon’s mother watched her 12-day-old baby’s curious eyes scan the hospital hallway last June as nurses took him toward the operating room.
His family sobbed inside the Minneapolis hospital. Jayden’s mother said she believed the baby was communicating to them with those brown eyes, which he had rarely opened.
