The surgeons in the conference were able to visualize the surgery they were watching better than if they had been in the operating room live. This has been the first use for medicine and biology in the world and up on the big screen in ultra high definition.
In addition the video showed the first ever 4k microscopy images of single cell organisms ever recorded. Viewing surgical procedures may never be the same. Big contribution from Sony too. Like the picture of the crowd, reminds me of when 3 D movies made their first showing years ago. BD
For the first time ever Hollywood’s digital vanguard has teamed up with a surgeon to use tomorrow’s cinematic tools to revolutionize 
visualization in the operating room. We successfully filmed produced and played a 4k digital cinema movie of a live human surgery. This was an amazing collaboration between a fertility surgeon, the AAGL endoscopy society, Sony Medical & Broadcast divisions, Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, FotoKem, Vincent Pace films, USC professor Richard Weinberg, and the NBA just to name a few!
We also showed the largest medical 3d displays ever.
Virtually all of my surgery is endoscopic- performed through tiny telescopes and viewed on a TV monitor. In 2001 I performed the world’s firs HDTV surgery and demonstrated how increased resolution improved the surgeon’s visualization and performance of procedures. Over the past two years I refined this work with even better performing camera systems and this work was featured on 20/20 and on the National Geographic Channel’s first ever HD medical show - Inside the Living Body.
Hollywood is embracing its digital future by adopting (with $1 billion in financing and a follow-up deal by Sony) planned conversion of 20,000 theaters to ultrahigh definition 4k (4096x 2048) video. By increasing resolution to this level we allow the surgeon to be actually immersed in images that surpass the live surgical experience. The progress from regular surgical film technology is like comparing sitting in an HD home theater to watching a video on a cell phone.
These images were enabled by converting Sony’s ultrahigh definition and 3d theatrical systems to show medical footage in what the AAGL called the “Theater of Tomorrow.”
http://docinthemachine.com/2008/11/04/4ksurgery/
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