Who we teach
Different specialties, different questions
The platform is the same in every case. What changes is the question being asked of it — and, just as importantly, what it should not be asked to answer.
Cardiac surgery
Understanding the geometry before the day, and agreeing on it as a team.
Operative anatomy is three-dimensional and the images it is planned from are not. For a straightforward case the translation is routine. For a reoperation, an unusual root, a complex aortic arrangement or a heart that has already been altered surgically, the translation is where the effort goes — and where two experienced people can legitimately end up with different mental pictures.
Reviewing the reconstruction together removes the ambiguity. The structure is on the table, so to speak, and the discussion moves from what the anatomy is to what to do about it. In immersive review the scale is real, which matters when the question is whether something will physically reach.
Typical use
- Spatial review of a planned case with the whole team present
- Rehearsal-style discussion of access and exposure, as preparation not prescription
- Reoperations and previously repaired anatomy
- Teaching registrars on cases they will not see often
Relevant training: Immersive VR Masterclass — €1,890
Interventional cardiology
Landing zones, access routes and clearances, studied on the patient in front of you.
Structural work depends on relationships between things: an annulus and a coronary ostium, a device and a conduction system, a delivery route and the vessel it has to pass through. Those relationships live in three dimensions and are usually assessed from reformatted planes chosen one at a time.
A patient-specific reconstruction lets those relationships be examined directly, and a device can be positioned virtually to see how it sits. Used in research and preparation, this is a way of asking better questions of the dataset before anyone is in the lab.
Typical use
- Study of landing zones and neighbouring structures on reconstructed anatomy
- Virtual positioning of a device to examine fit and clearance, for research purposes
- Retrospective review of completed cases for research or teaching
- Discussion material for a structural heart team meeting
Relevant training: Cardiovascular 3D & Measurement — €1,190
Congenital heart disease
The anatomy that flat review serves worst.
Congenital cardiovascular anatomy is the clearest case for spatial visualization. Segments are related in ways no standard view anticipates, staged repairs add conduits and baffles that exist in no textbook, and the vocabulary needed to describe what is there in a report is exhausting to write and easy to misread.
Working in three dimensions — and particularly in VR, where relative position is immediately obvious — turns a description problem back into a looking problem. It is also the setting where teaching benefits most: a trainee can be shown the arrangement rather than told about it.
Typical use
- Review of malformed, repaired and post-surgical anatomy
- Understanding conduits, baffles, shunts and anomalous vessel courses
- Multidisciplinary discussion of complex cases
- Building a teaching library of unusual arrangements
Relevant training: Immersive VR Masterclass — €1,890
Cardiovascular imaging research
Repeatable measurement, and visualization as a subject in its own right.
For a research group the interesting properties are reproducibility and throughput: a measurement protocol that different readers apply the same way, applied to a cohort large enough to say something. Three-dimensional review changes what is measurable and how consistently, which makes it both a tool and a variable.
We work with universities, hospitals and imaging laboratories on retrospective imaging studies, feasibility work, reader-variability studies, virtual reality research and studies of medical education itself. Where the work needs software that does not exist yet, we can build it.
Typical use
- Retrospective imaging studies on existing cohorts
- Measurement and reader-reproducibility protocols
- Studies of immersive visualization and how it changes reading behaviour
- Feasibility work ahead of a grant application
Relevant training: Cardiovascular 3D & Measurement — €1,190
Medical education
Anatomy a student can walk around, from real patients rather than illustrations.
Teaching cardiovascular anatomy is limited by what can be shown. Diagrams are clean and wrong; specimens are correct and scarce; slice-by-slice review demands exactly the spatial skill being taught. A patient-specific reconstruction sits between them: real, available, and possible to explore at the pace of the person learning.
For workshops and case demonstrations the immersive mode is particularly effective, because the whole group is looking at the same structure and can be directed to a specific feature immediately, without the usual "no, the other one" conversation.
Typical use
- Undergraduate and postgraduate anatomy teaching
- Case demonstrations in workshops and courses
- Immersive VR sessions for student cohorts
- A reusable library of teaching cases built from your own material
Relevant training: Academic Program
Not sure which of these you are?
Most conversations start somewhere between two of them. Describe the case that made you look for something like this and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.