Mixed Reality Streaming during Skull Base Surgery: Cadaveric Feasibility and Efficacy

Neurosurgery/Spatial Computing

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Last Updated: 01/05/2026

Short Description

Determining the feasibility and efficacy of live-streaming surgical video feeds during image-guided skull base surgery.

Full Description

There are up to 21 million endoscopic surgeries in the United States and 118 million endoscopic surgeries performed worldwide each year. This surgery type includes laparoscopy, arthroscopy, laryngoscopy, colonoscopy, neuroendoscopy, to name a few. This modality is exceedingly common in surgery, especially given it is a fundamental component of minimally invasive surgery. Thus far, applications of MR in surgery have primarily focused either on intra-operative visualization or pre-operative planning. There is currently no MR study focusing on intra-operative streaming during skull base surgery. This cadaveric study is a crucial step in creating the digital OR by focusing on streaming the aforementioned display information into an MR head-mounted display, such as the HoloLens2 or, more recently, Apple Vision Pro. This verifies its usability with surgeons on standardized tasks, and validating its clinical effectiveness during skull base surgery.