Holography in Medical Training

In its predictions for continued growth for holography in 2022 (see HN January 2022), the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) pointed to new applications for holography in medical imaging.

Holography is already proving useful in detecting problems in organs such as the heart and brain (see HN April 2021), but in this article, Holography News® takes a look at holography as a training tool in medicine.

Project Polaris in Singapore

The National University of Singapore (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine is getting holographic technology from Microsoft to aid its medical and nursing students in learning medical procedures and studying anatomical structures.

Beginning this April, the so-called Project Polaris NUS will be a collaborative effort by NUS Medicine, National University Health System (NUHS), and Microsoft to hone students’ skills through mixed reality training based around the Microsoft HoloLens 2.