Surgeons at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam speak of a revolution now that they can use virtual reality glasses for lung cancer operations. They say that they can operate in a much more targeted way with the help of glasses and that healthy lung tissue is spared as much as possible.
Heart and lung surgeon Lex Maat of the Erasmus Medical Center says in a report by the NOS that the new technique appears to be very successful. According to Maat, the anatomy of the lungs is different in almost every patient. VR technology is used when small pieces of tumor have to be removed. ‘You only remove the sick part, so a lot more healthy lung tissue remains,’ says Maat.
The surgeon speaks of an absolute revolution in diagnostics: ‘In the past, we had to reconstruct the blood vessels in our heads slice by slice to get a little idea of how things look three-dimensional. With the VR glasses I can, as it were, walk through the lung and see exactly where the tumor is. ‘
Heart and lung surgeon Lex Maat of the Erasmus Medical Center says in a report by the NOS that the new technique appears to be very successful. According to Maat, the anatomy of the lungs is different in almost every patient. VR technology is used when small pieces of tumor have to be removed. ‘You only remove the diseased part, so much more healthy lung tissue remains,’ says Maat. The surgeon speaks of an absolute revolution in diagnostics: to get an idea of how things look three-dimensional. With the VR glasses I can, as it were, walk through the lung and see exactly where the tumor is. ‘
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