4D Imaging: Enhancing Spatial Visualisation Abilities in Surgery
The project 4D Imaging investigates the visualization of patient specific anatomy in extended reality applications. In surgical planning, 4D imaging promises a new approach to visualize patient data as a volume instead of as a series of slices. Building on volume rendering techniques, which have been established since the early 1990s, 4D technologies can also capture, process and transmit information about physical space to make it computable in real time. In this way changes caused by movements and actions become calculable, so that 4D images gain importance especially in operational contexts in which they re-conceptualise various forms of human-computer interactions.
The project responds to the growing need in medicine to understand, use and design complex real-time imaging technologies. It transfers critical-reflexive competences of digital media into clinical application contexts in order to empower users to design and use 4D imaging application. It is part of the DFG priority program *The Digital Image* and is conducted in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Kathrin Friedrich at Universität Bonn.
Info
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Moritz Queisner
- Team: Karl Eisenträger
- Duration 2023 - 2026
- Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Part of DFG Priority Program (SPP) “The Digital Image”
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Publications
- Queisner M, Eisenträger K. Surgical planning in virtual reality: a systematic review. J. Med. Imag. 2024:11(6). doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.11.6.062603.