Doctors at SSG Hospital in Vadodara successfully used Augmented Reality (AR) technology with Meta VR headsets to plan and perform a breast cancer surgery on a 47-year-old woman. Doctors managed to remove the tumor from the patient’s breast with a 2 cm incision, SSG Hospital said in a statement.

“Since the patient had received chemotherapy and targeted treatment before the surgery, the lump in the breast could no longer be felt, which made it challenging to perform the breast-conserving surgery,” the hospital said.

In order to meticulously plan the procedure, the surgical team used Meta VR headsets to visualise a 3D model of the patient’s breast created by combining her CT and MRI scans. The model was projected directly onto the patient’s body in the operation theatre, allowing real-time

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