Two-year project will lead to more minimally invasive surgical techniques, treatments.

Until now, neurosurgery has been the traditional application for image-guided surgery.

But Robarts Research Institute and medical visualization software developer Atamai Inc., both of London, Ont., along with Mountain View, Calif.-based Silicon Graphics Inc., are working on a two-year project at the institute's Virtual Augmentation and Simulation for Surgery & Therapy (VASST) lab to make image-guided surgery a reality for other types of medical procedures, such as prostate cancer therapy, breast cancer biopsy and cardiac intervention and therapy as well.

The institute is using a 20-processor Altix 3000 server, a dual-processor Altix 350 server with 20 GB of memory, and a 6 TB InfiniteStorage Storage Area Network (SAN) solution from SGI to model functioning human organs to aid in the development of minimally invasive surgery and therapy techniques.
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Source : ITBusiness.ca