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Start-Up Spotlight: Augmedics, Bringing X-Ray Vision To The Surgical Table

 
• By Catherine Longworth

Israeli start-up Augmedics is developing an augmented reality vision system designed to give surgeons "X-ray vision." The company's ViZOR system uses see-through AR optics to project a 3D image of a patient's spine onto a surgeon's retina, in real-time.

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Even for the most skilled spine surgeon, the use of a navigation system can be challenging. In the critical moment when a surgeon must select the correct point of insertion of the screw into the vertebra, the navigated information is projected on a distant screen. "While laparoscopic surgeons and cardiovascular surgeons are used to doing procedures looking at a screen, orthopedic surgeons are used to looking at their patient's tissue and bones," Nissan Elimelech, CEO of Israeli augmented reality specialist Augmedics, tells Medtech Insight.

Before founding Augmedics, biomedical engineer Elimelech worked as a sales rep for Medtronic's Spine Surgery division. While selling navigation systems and computer assisted surgery tools to surgeons, he found the...

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