3D Laparoscope™

A more advanced application of the InnerOptic technology is the 3D Laparoscope surgical system. The surgeon wears a video see-through head-mounted display (HMD) and views a composite, dynamic three-dimensional (3D) image featuring a synthetic opening into the patient, akin to open surgery (shown below).

The brochure for the 3D Laparoscope is available here.

One MIS procedure that benefits from the 3D Laparoscope the targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic agents to only the organs in which cancer occurs.  Much research indicates that this technique is particularly effective for the liver.  In this procedure, called hepatic arterial infusion (HAI), the surgeon places a catheter for the chemotherapy drugs into the hepatic artery under ultrasound guidance.  When performed as an open procedure, HAI can prove too taxing for the patient’s already-weakened body, and is thus not frequently recommended.  However, the minimally-invasive approach using laparoscopic ultrasound has been attempted with very promising results.  The 3D Laparoscope, as shown below, is useful in using ultrasound to guide the needle that places the catheter.

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