Last month we reviewed some basics on how to reconstruct 3D computer models based on patient scan data, using an open source 3D reconstruction software, 3D Slicer. A more in-depth post on modeling can also be found here. Apart from utilizing them in our educational videos, these 3D models generated from reconstruction softwares also serve as … Read More
Happy new year to all, and hope everyone is staying safe. The TVASurg team has been fortunate to continue our work in creating surgical education videos. In the past years, we have branched out from our original focus in hepato-pancreato-biliary and multi-organ transplant procedures, to other surgical specialities such as obstetrics/gynecology and head and neck … Read More
We hope everyone is doing well. In the current atmosphere of virtual meetings and conferences, we have started to experiment with the existing virtual reality (VR) architecture we’ve developed, to explore whether collaboration and education could be taken to a new dimension. To that end, we’ve tested two use-cases for VR, in discussions about surgical … Read More
Apart from our bread-and-butter educational surgical videos, the TVASurg team also collaborates with our staff surgeons, scientists and surgical fellows in academic publications, by creating medical illustrations to accompany their articles. Below are a selection of pieces that have been published in journals such as Nature Communications, Liver Transplantation, Transplantation, and the British Journal of … Read More
Like many people affected by the COVID19 pandemic, we’ve been working from home to help stop the spread of infection. Our new Basics of Hysterectomy video represents many layers of success for us. This was not only our first fully-animated surgical case release as a team, but also the first video we released from our … Read More