Volume Interactions

Volume Interactions Pte Ltd was a company that pioneered in the 1990s the use Virtual Reality technology in surgery planning.[1][2][3] The company created and marketed the Dextroscope, the first commercial surgical planning system that used virtual reality principles going beyond the mouse and keyboard. The Dextroscope introduced a variation of Virtual Reality technology that didn't use Head-Mounted display (using instead a stereoscopic display that housed a two-handed 3D user interface) that provided a natural and comfortable interface to work with multi-modality 3D medical images for long periods of time. This environment was applied to the planning of patient-specific surgical approaches for several clinical disciplines, including neurosurgery,[4][5][6] Ear-Nose-Throat,[7] and liver surgery.[8] The Dextroscope received world-wide attention by being involved in the planning of several craniopagus twin separations, most notably the Zambian twins (1997) and the German twins (2004[9][10]) at Johns Hopkins Hospital led by Dr Benjamin Carson, and the Nepali twins separation[11] at the Singapore General Hospital in 2001.[12]

The Dextroscope was launched in Europe in 2000 and subsequently in Asia and the USA (2006[13]). The company later introduced the Dextrobeam, a product designed to make 3D medical stereoscopic presentations to large audiences, using stereoscopic projection systems.[14]

The company Quality Management System complied with the requirements of ISO 13485:2003 and the products were listed in the Singapore Medical Device Registration (SMDR) by the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore.

The Dextroscope and Dextrobeam received USA FDA 510(K) - class II (2002) clearance, CE Marking - class I (2002), China SFDA Registration - class II (2004) and Taiwan Registration - type P (Radiology) (2007).

The company was a spin-off company from the Kent Ridge Digital Labs research institute in Singapore. The company was founded in 2000 in Singapore by Luis Serra, Ng Hern, Ralf A Kockro, Eugene CK Lee and Chris Goh with seed capital from Life Sciences Investments (LSI) Pte Ltd., a co-investment fund of the Singapore Economic Development Board Investments Pte Ltd. (EDBI). It was later acquired by[15] the Bracco Group in 2002. Volume Interactions ceased commercial operations in 2008.

References
  1. Kockro, R. A.; Serra, L.; Tseng-Tsai, Y.; Chan, C.; Yih-Yian, S.; Gim-Guan, C.; Lee, E.; Hoe, L. Y.; Hern, N. (2000-01-01). "Planning and simulation of neurosurgery in a virtual reality environment". Neurosurgery. 46 (1): 118–135, discussion 135–137. doi:10.1097/00006123-200001000-00024. ISSN 0148-396X. PMID 10626943.
  2. Serra, L.; Hern, N.; Guan, C. G.; Lee, E.; Lee, Y. H.; Yeo, T. T.; Chan, C.; Kockro, R. A. (1999-01-01). "An interface for precise and comfortable 3D work with volumetric medical datasets". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 62: 328–334. ISSN 0926-9630. PMID 10538381.
  3. Wong, George K. C.; Zhu, Canon X. L.; Ahuja, Anil T.; Poon, Wai S. (September 2007). "Craniotomy and clipping of intracranial aneurysm in a stereoscopic virtual reality environment". Neurosurgery. 61 (3): 564–568, discussion 568–569. doi:10.1227/01.NEU.0000290904.46061.0D. ISSN 1524-4040. PMID 17881970. S2CID 70632953.
  4. Ferroli, Paolo; Tringali, Giovanni; Acerbi, Francesco; Schiariti, Marco; Broggi, Morgan; Aquino, Domenico; Broggi, Giovanni (2013-01-01). "Advanced 3-dimensional planning in neurosurgery". Neurosurgery. 72 Suppl 1: 54–62. doi:10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182748ee8. ISSN 1524-4040. PMID 23254813.
  5. Anil, S. M.; Kato, Y.; Hayakawa, M.; Yoshida, K.; Nagahisha, S.; Kanno, T. (2007-04-01). "Virtual 3-dimensional preoperative planning with the dextroscope for excision of a 4th ventricular ependymoma". Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery. 50 (2): 65–70. doi:10.1055/s-2007-982508. ISSN 0946-7211. PMID 17674290.
  6. Perneczky, Axel (2008). Keyhole approaches in neurosurgery. Volume I, Concept and surgical technique. Robert Reisch, Manfred Tschabitscher. Wien: SpringerWienNewYork. ISBN 978-3-211-69501-2. OCLC 525080382.
  7. Neri, Emanuele; Berrettini, Stefano; Salvatori, Luca; Forli, Francesca; Franceschini, Stefano Sellari; Bartolozzi, Carlo (2005-10-01). "3-D CT and MRI co-registration in the assessment of cochlear implantation". Medical Science Monitor: International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research. 11 (10): MT63–67. ISSN 1234-1010. PMID 16192910.
  8. Chen, Gang; Li, Xue-Cheng; Wu, Guo-Qing; Wang, Yi; Fang, Bin; Xiong, Xiao-Feng; Yang, Ri-gao; Tan, Li-wen; Zhang, Shao-Xiang; Dong, Jia-Hong (2010-01-01). "The use of virtual reality for the functional simulation of hepatic tumors (case control study)". International Journal of Surgery. 8 (1): 72–78. doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2009.11.005. ISSN 1743-9191. PMID 19944191.
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  10. Simpkins, Beth. "Johns Hopkins Team Separates German Conjoined Twins". www.hopkinsmedicine.org. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
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  12. "Neurosurgeons Use SGI Powered VR Sys To Assist In Operation". HPCwire. 2001-05-11. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
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  14. Kockro, Ralf A.; Stadie, Axel; Schwandt, Eike; Reisch, Robert; Charalampaki, Cleopatra; Ng, Ivan; Yeo, Tseng Tsai; Hwang, Peter; Serra, Luis (2007-11-01). "A Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment for Neurosurgical Planning and Training". Operative Neurosurgery. 61 (suppl_5): ONSE379–ONSE391. doi:10.1227/01.neu.0000303997.12645.26. ISSN 2332-4252. PMID 18091253. S2CID 22068005.
  15. "Bracco acquires "Volume interactions" (high tech systems for diagnosis and surgery). | Bracco Imaging". imaging.bracco.com. Retrieved 2017-06-05.


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