RealView Imaging Ltd., an Israel-based company that develops a 3D holographic display and interface system for use in medical procedures, has recently completed a $10 million investment round led by Chinese firm LongTec China Ventures.
The company’s technology enables doctors to view a real-time 3D hologram of a patient’s anatomy “floating in the air” and interact with it either by stylus or with their hands.
In 2013 the company concluded a clinical study intended to evaluate the use of live 3D holographic imaging in interventional cardiology, in a joint project conducted in collaboration with Philips Healthcare.
As part of this study the company’s system was used in August 2013 in minimally-invasive structural heart procedures at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Israel.
A real-time 3D hologram of a patient’s anatomy “floating in the air.”
In one of the procedures it projected a hologram of the pulmonary arteries of the patient, a 2-year-old boy.