“With the rise of minimally invasive surgery, there’s a widely-held belief among industry experts that imaging technologies that give the surgeon greater precision and more control and flexibility will become ever-more important,” adds Johan Stockman, Barco’s strategic marketing VP for surgical imaging. “The benefit is that, the more detail the surgical team can see, the greater the accuracy and efficiency of the surgical procedure, and thus the higher the potential for error-free surgery.”

Why 4K is the future 
With technology continuing to advance at a rapid pace, new medical procedures are being created that require sophisticated high resolution, flexible image composition and larger display solutions in the hybrid OR. 4K imaging – featuring 8 million pixels compared to the traditional 2 million of HD – lends itself perfectly to high-quality and future-ready surgical procedures, delivering an astonishing increase in detail, more nuance, an extremely high contrast ratio, truer levels of black, and smoother moving images.