World’s First “4k” Laparoscopy Performed

Steven F. Palter, MD proudly demonstrated their use of RED Camera’s to report and broadcast a laporascopic procedure in 4K.

I am so excited to report that I have performed the world’s first laparoscopy in 4K – using cameras with a resolution 4 times that of HD. I presented the details and shared the images with a crowd of 3500 at the 65th Annual Meeting of the ASRM this week in Atlanta in my invited plenary lecture. We showed the audience how the digital technology being developed to transform movies could be directly applied to take surgical performance to tthe next level.

They worked with a company called Offhollywood to combine the RED One cameras, Sony 4K projectors, and RealD 3D Lenses for the final solution.

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .