A system based partly on the Xbox Kinect motion-sensing technology can be effective in helping surgeons manipulate MR images in the OR while preserving sterility, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Surgeons are interested in this technology because the manual use of computer workstations to manipulate these images creates potential for infection. Physicians who touch a mouse or a keyboard need to scrub in again, wasting precious time. Although surgeons can ask staffers to rotate or enlarge images, this approach can be cumbersome, inefficient and frustrating.
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