ABSTRACT
Just over two months after the discovery of x-rays, a bromide print was used to aid in the surgical removal of a needle from a woman’s In conventional clinical practice today, the wide range of medical imaging modalities available are largely used for diagnosis or monitoring the progression of disease. During an intervention, images showing the pathology and surrounding anatomy may be displayed on a light box, but the correspondence between image and patient is established entirely in the mind of the clinician, using knowledge of anatomy and surgical appearance accrued over many years of training. In many procedures it would be desirable if this correspondence between image and patient could be achieved by some more accurate and ergonomic method, providing the interventionist with aligned radiological data showing the position of the target and surrounding critical structures. The goal is to make procedures less invasive, faster, and safer.
