Doctors use iPad for Imaging-based Surgical Guidance

(JAPAN) -- Surgeons use the iPad during a surgical procedure in order to access images from their PACS system for imaging guidance. Wrapped in a sterile custom made wrapper around the iPad, the surgeons were able to use touch gestures to navigate through 3D surface rendered images to help guide their scalpel. Radiology and the iPad comes to the rescue to save this patient's life. See for yourself this latest innovation in radiology and mobile technology. The iPad is truly rapidly revolutionizing medicine as well as the consumer electronics arena.