This simulation shows how adjusting an instrument's entry point and approach angle changes its straight-line distance to nearby blood vessels, and how planners quantify that as a numeric safety clearance rather than a visual guess.
Drag the azimuth and elevation sliders to sweep the entry point around the organ's surface, switch targets to see different lesion depths and vessel layouts, and watch the trajectory turn green or red as clearance is recalculated live.
Azimuth/elevation sliders set entry point, target selector, rebuild vessels button
Real surgical navigation systems perform this same closest-point distance calculation many times per second during an operation, continuously checking the live instrument position against every mapped vessel and nerve.
This simulation shows how adjusting an instrument's entry point and approach angle changes its straight-line distance to nearby blood vessels, and how planners quantify that as a numeric safety clearance rather than a visual guess.
This simulation shows how adjusting an instrument's entry point and approach angle changes its straight-line distance to nearby blood vessels, and how planners quantify that as a numeric safety clearance rather than a visual guess.
Drag the azimuth and elevation sliders to sweep the entry point around the organ's surface, switch targets to see different lesion depths and vessel layouts, and watch the trajectory turn green or red as clearance is recalculated live.
Real surgical navigation systems perform this same closest-point distance calculation many times per second during an operation, continuously checking the live instrument position against every mapped vessel and nerve.