BrainLAB's Digital Lightbox

I just read about BrainLAB's Digital Lightbox: a super cool, multitouch, display that allows doctors to view and interact with x-rays, CAT scans and other medical visualizations and data. Check out the video for some inspiration. (thanks to Lynn Marentette of the Interactive Media Technology blog for the lead!)

BrainLAB has lots of great medical applications for this device. It reminds me of the Microsoft video about the future of digital health care.

From the original post on Ubergizmo:

"Digital Lightbox replaces the conventional light box used to observe analog x-ray images. Connected to the hospital PACS, the new digital platform can be installed both in meeting rooms and in operating rooms, where clinicians can then access, manipulate, and utilize data for surgery planning. By displaying the human body in 3D, Digital Lightbox helps clinicians to more clearly demonstrate to patients what effects a disease can have and which procedures may be necessary. Digital Lightbox enables clinicians to select the most valuable images from large amounts of existing medical data. Ergonomic touchscreen technology with zoom functionality makes working with data easy and effective. Clinicians can intuitively navigate within pictures and between settings. Image scrolling can be performed with one finger; zooming in and out of images with two. Images from different sources can also be fused easily. A measure functionality enables clinicians to set size and other dimensions."