OCAD University’s PHASE Lab is researching transformative medical data that will provide new insights for medical imaging specialists and help save lives. Medical professionals currently rely on 2-D viewing methods to read medical information gathered from 3-D scans, which results in a loss of spatial information. Holographic technology would allow 3-D medical data to be viewed in 3-D, resulting in more accurate analysis, diagnostics, forensics, and health care records. While this technology is expensive and inconvenient to use, researcher Michael Page and his team at PHASE Lab is working on creating a software application that will readily, accessibly, and affordably create print-ready holographic medical images from MRI scanners and other 3-D imaging devices.
The lab intends to make medical imaging more accurate and accessible by developing a viewing work station that translates this medical data into holographic form for printing at a vastly reduced cost.
