It allows medical imaging such as computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information to be shown directly on a patient’s body in a way that moves as the patient does.

• The technology makes use of a motion-tracking system utilizing infra-red cameras and markers on the patient’s body, as well as a projector to show the images gathered.
• It can display segmented images, for instance, only the lungs or only the blood vessels, depending on what the physician or doctor is interested in seeing the patient’s anatomy.
• The inventors of the technology are working on calibrating ProjectDR to upgrade its automatic calibration and to put in extra components such as depth sensors.
• The next phase of the technology is to be tested in a clinical setting.

The project was initially presented in November 2017 at the Virtual Reality Software and Symposium in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Source: Science News