A neurosurgeon and team of computer engineers and developers have produced an innovative medical imaging software platform that combines a DICOM viewer for radiology scans with motion sensing as a way to view images in a sterile environment.
MotionView was started by Luke Macyszyn, a neurosurgeon at Penn Medicine, along with computer scientists and engineers Madhur Behl, Bilwaj Gaonkar and Aris Sotiras, who demoed the software platform at Penn Medicine’s Entrepreneur Forum. Its medical imaging software uses motion detection technology from Leap Motion. In addition to surgery, the software is designed to be used in different clinical settings such as a patient exam to an emergency room.
It’s designed to do away with the annoying interruptions during brain surgery and other procedures of going to a computer and clicking to whatever image is needed next — a process that involves decontamination, which can pile on time and increase the risk of complications such as hospital acquired infections, according to Macyszyn.
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Users can manoeuver their fingers to zoom in and out or adjust the image contrast. They can also use the tool to access the patients’ medical records. Macyszyn said the medtech company submitted the software behind the device for a provisional patent.
