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Surgeon Performs World's First 4X HD Surgery

Posted by timothy on from the capture-more-gore dept.

docinthemachine writes with word of some "research just presented at the 65th ASRM on 4K surgery. Using bleeding-edge Hollywood 4K cameras coupled to laparoscopes, surgery was performed in 4K, or 4X the resolution of HD. Since laparoscopy is performed while viewing on a video monitor, this is a huge advancement of resolution and clarity for the surgeon. It only took a million dollars of projectors to show it to the audience."

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  1. "bleeding-edge" by SigILL · · Score: 5, Funny

    What an unfortunate choice of words.

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    1. Re:"bleeding-edge" by DeadDecoy · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sure cutting-edge would have been more appropriate.

  2. Google is interested in the technology by sopssa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I knew the

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    that is tattooed on my ass would come handy.

  3. Re:price by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    and $5 million in damages to the MPAA for illegally pirating an episode of ER

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  4. We own a 4x HD monitor by purduephotog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, actually, it's around 3.5 HD, but it's the thought that counts.

    This baby is awesome. I get to look at tons of displays for work and this one still takes the cake- it's made by Barco, is incredibly bright, has a built in calibration puck, comes with some decent software (ie, easily 'configured' for our purposes), and all around blows the socks off of everything on the market.

    Don't mind the $16K price tag.

    The diffuser used is so clean you could eat off it- none of that nasty subsurface artifacting that looks like dust on your screen (speckle). Just pure, rich, saturated colors that are accurately represented with no TFT structure to worry about.

    Now, IBM had the T221 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors) which had a native resolution of 3840x2200- at 200ppi- so that your eyes could never make out the substructure of the pixels. Best of all the monitor had hardware interpolation- it could be used at 1/2x to basically present the user a clean screen with nothing to distract your eyes from. IBM did this back in 2000!