Surgery Godfather
Chapter 944 - 811: A Powerful System

Chapter 944: Chapter 811: A Powerful System

Yang Ping planned to start his own journal, not just in thought, but he swiftly put it into action.

A journal is the authority of academic discourse, and in any field, such authority is crucial. Yang Ping had to seize this authority, although pioneering this endeavor was extremely challenging and perhaps thankless, it was a necessity that someone undertook it.

The 13 CNS papers that Yang Ping published this time were just the appetizer; the main event was yet to come, and he decided to publish subsequent results in his own journal.

The soul of a journal lies in its papers; if the papers published in a journal are world-class, then the journal itself is world-class.

World-class is never static, as reflected in the most audacious proverb in our country’s history, "Do princes and generals have special origins?"

Following this doctrine—does world-class have a special origin?

Song Hanhui had already been hospitalized, and the date of the surgery had also been set, but no one had encountered such complex cardiac malformations before, and the surgery had to be customized. The Digital Lab of Nandu Medical University not only helped Yang Ping to create a 3D image of Song Hanhui’s heart but also integrated it with VR technology.

The day after Song Hanhui was admitted, Yang Ping decided to use VR technology to demonstrate the entire surgical process to familiarize everyone with it.

The VR equipment was provided by Ruixing Medical. Although the application of VR in the field of medicine is very narrow, Ruixing Medical still does not forget to develop this branch on the tech tree. Maintaining a presence in certain areas is a basic requirement of the company’s strategy.

After the surgery in the afternoon, all the doctors gathered together, and of course, Academician Wang, Professor Chen, and Professor Xin participated, all wearing VR glasses.

Each person saw an exceedingly clear and lifelike 3D image of a heart, so lifelike that it was almost deceptive.

The heart was connected to five major blood vessels, the arteries kept branching out, becoming finer and finally breaking into innumerable capillary networks, then returning to the veins, which gradually merged and eventually formed into the major veins, returning to the heart.

Whether it was the systemic circulation or the pulmonary circulation, it was clearly displayed before them.

The beating heart emitted a rhythmic thumping sound, and to let everyone clearly see the workflow inside the heart and blood vessels, the heart and vessels slowly became translucent or semi-sectional, and after several minutes, the normal image was restored.

This use of digital human technology as support for VR created an effect that ordinary medical VR companies could not compare to; currently, this was just a 3D model made using the digital human skin library.

If Professor He’s team completes the entire digital heart, the VR created then will not just be viewed through glasses but will fully simulate the tactile sensation of the heart and its physiological functions.

It could also utilize VR technology for interaction, simulating a realistic heart surgery, mimicking almost all the surgical details; cutting open the heart could cause bleeding, cauterizing the vessel ends could stop bleeding, injecting virtual arresting solution could cause cardiac arrest, and the surgical knife could delicately feel the texture of tissues.

After displaying the simulated images of the heart and blood vessels, the demonstration of the surgical process began; a surgical knife started operating on the heart, followed by various surgical instruments intervening, the entire surgical process was incredibly clear and realistic, even the gauze was simulated to a deceptive degree.

The entire surgical process, including the removal of the original surgery, the reconstruction of the eight malformations, and the functional state achieved post-surgery, was demonstrated very clearly, which shows the importance of system support.

Today’s wars rely on system support, and so does medicine; the tremendous progress in medicine is definitely backed by advancements in technology and industry, such as the development of minimally invasive surgery, which necessarily relies on the development of endoscopes, in turn depending on advances in optical and electronic technologies.

An excellent cardiac surgeon to fulfil his value also needs the support of the entire system—instruments, medicines, anesthesia techniques, extracorporeal circulation technologies, hypothermia technologies, intensive care technologies, among others.

"Which company’s VR technology is this, and how come we have never used this company before?"

After finishing the VR observation, Academician Wang removed his VR glasses and asked in confusion.

Fuwai has also been exposed to VR technology, such as using VR to evaluate surgeries, even guiding surgeries intraoperatively, but Academician Wang clearly felt that the VR images produced by previous collaborative companies were not as clear and realistic as today’s.

Because ordinary companies engaging in medical VR applications are merely dabbling, at most considered a medical 3D animation company, they simply could not support this kind of digital human technology.

And the digital medical laboratory at Nandu Medical University holds world-class digital human technology, using digital human technology to complete a 3D animation is akin to university students doing kindergarten math.

The VR hardware currently held by Ruixing Medical is also world-class; world-class hardware combined with world-class software, no small company could possibly match this level.

"This is our own digital human technology; what was just demonstrated was merely the external appearance of the heart."

Yang Ping explained to Academician Wang.

In fact, it would be more suitable to use the popular term "skin" to explain, but Academician Wang might not understand what "skin" is because digital human technology encompasses many things, among which the most crucial is digital cells, which are used to construct the entire organ.

But the final digital organ presented to people must have a realistic appearance, this appearance is akin to the "skin" of mobile apps, it is only responsible for simulating a realistic appearance of the organ and has nothing to do with the organ’s digital physiological functions.