U.S. invented 3D ultrasound for surgical surgery

engineers at Duke University in the United States have successfully invented a 3D ultrasound scanner that can be used to guide surgical machineryThe paper has also been published in the journal Ultrasound of the American Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineerssmith, a graduate student at Pratt College who was involved in the study, said theinstrumentcould be assembled on a number of increasingly popular surgical machinery to perform minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeryheartor other organs, in which surgeons simply make a small incision and then the scanner can provide a vivid picture of the surgical organThe researchers used 3D ultrasound images in real time during simulated surgery to pinpoint, and then the relevant spatial information could guide the surgical machinery to complete the task correctlyIn addition, a 3D scanner allows surgeons to findtumorin tissue biopsies, thus avoiding missed diagnosesNow physicians also need to rely on still images such as ct scans to diagnose suspicious tissueThe researchers also claim that with the development of artificial intelligence technology, the scanner can even guide surgical machinery to complete surgery without a doctorSmith added that while theinstrumenthas not yet been applied to patients, they are eager to try clinical trialscompared with one,2D ultrasound,3D ultrasound has the following advantages: improved visibility,information obtained isfrom the three-dimensional characteristics of pathology,the three-dimensional scanning obtained multiple times can reduce the risk of smaller lesions leakage; Three-dimensional ultrasound is mainly used in intra-eye lesions(
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