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Medical imaging is saving millions of lives each year, helping doctors to detect and diagnose a wide array of diseases, from cancer and appendicitis to stroke and heart disease.
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Healthcare Business Review | Tuesday, January 05, 2021
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FREMONT, CA: Medical imaging is saving millions of lives each year, helping doctors to detect and diagnose a wide array of diseases, from cancer and appendicitis to stroke and heart disease. Because of non-invasive early disease detection is capable of saving so many lives, scientific investment continues to increase. Many technologies impact healthcare; here are the biggest trends in medical imaging that is dominating 2020.
AUGMENTED REALITY
As embraced by many industries, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are finding new applications in healthcare. For instance, surgeons these days can prepare for surgery by studying radiology scans of the patient and three -dimensional imaging has improved their capability to visualize the patient anatomy excellently. With the help of AR, medical images can be converted and mounted on AR headsets which the surgeon can wear while performing the surgery.[vendor_logo_first]
CINEMATIC RENDERING AND DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY
For understanding the complex functioning of organs like the heart, 3-D images can be combined with additional information to feed into the cinematic rendering tools.