nVue Surgical platform powered by Artiness software suite

The nVue Surgical platform, a new heart and lung mixed reality, is a training, education and procedure planning tool that utilizes a patient’s own CT scan and provides an innovative software suite to clinicians for immersive visualization of cardiovascular and respiratory interventions on 3D patient-specific models through mixed reality reconstruction.

It offers the ability to build fluoroscopic and echocardiographic imagery through an uploaded CT scan.

The nVue Surgical platform allows the user a full immersion experience whether it be for education and collaboration, training, procedure planning or patient interaction.

Education & Collaboration

nVue Surgical’s immersive visualization, in mixed reality, can be shared between multiple users, across the room, across the state, across the country or even across the world.

It is designed to provide improved support among the clinical team discussion by relying on a set of reliable, secure, and easy-to-use virtual tools.

Training

Mixed reality has shown benefits in training preparation for pre-surgical planning. As it provides the ability to explore a patient’s anatomy before performing a medical procedure.

Preoperative planning is an indispensable part of any successful surgical procedure. It is a complex task, requiring high levels of perception, cognitive, and sensorimotor skills to reduce surgical complications. Detailed preoperative planning can predict and reduce risks that may occur.1

Mixed reality has changed the traditional surgical training by providing:1

  • Highly efficient and cost-effective training method for trainees
  • Potential to reduce risks of surgery and time spent in the operating room
in HoloLens

Medical Applications

Some examples of applications utilizing nVue Surgical’s immersive visualization are:

  • Transplant, valve replacement, cardiac caths/stent placement, radiology
  • Offers all encapsulating view to see and measure anatomy prior to surgery
  • Measure and visualize valves, calcifications and narrowing of vessels
  • Aorta: Visualize and measure calcium build-up and aneurysms
  • 3D immersive visualization can help in training and planning which may reduce complexity and risk of TAVR and valve replacement procedures

 

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  • Uses include lung transplant, interventional pulmonology, radiology
  • Offers all encapsulating view to see and measure anatomy prior to surgery
  • Visualization of lung anatomy Including nodules, tumors, and airways
  • Ability to measure lung size and anatomy for surgical training
  • Resection: Offers immersive view of lungs to see anatomy prior to surgery
    • Predication of the exact number of pulmonary arteries and veins of the lobe to be resected.2
  • Measure airways for stenting

 

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  1. Sanchez, J. et al. Application of Mixed Reality in Medical Training and Surgical Planning Focused on Minimally Invasive Surgery. Frontiers in Virtual Reality. Oct. 2021.
  2. Preoperative Evaluation of Pulmonary Vascular Anatomy by Holograms. European Institute of Oncology. https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04227444