Hololens 2 and RETINA pair up for a local medical demonstration in Taipei, Taiwan The current global demand for cross-domain cooperation in the medical world has made some echo in a few companies from Taiwan. With the support of the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Local Innovation Service Office of the Information Industry Development Association (Innovation Office of the Information Industry Association) and the Shuangho Hospital of the

EPED Inc. receives the Innovative Research Award at the Taiwan SMEs Innovation Award Ceremony “It has been a very challenging year. But thanks to the hard work of our team, work ethics, and constant thirst for technological evolution of each one of us, is that we end with a flourish this year of 2020”, said DDS Douglas Huang, CEO of EPED Inc., while interviewed after receiving the Innovative Research Award during the Taiwan SMEs Innovation Award Ceremony on November 17. The a

RETINA and RETINA DUO, the stars of EPED Inc.’s Medical Navigation Solutions are indeed equally competitive when it comes to software and applications, however thanks to the valuable input of its users; the hardware had to be adapted to fulfill the needs of the end-user at the Operation Room (OR). Classic RETINA was the first model developed for navigation. The unit is 1.80cm tall and it is designed for those projects that require it to move only from one Operation Room to t

Accuracy and visibility are two of the most important factors when assisting surgery with an image-guided navigation system. One of RETINA’s characteristic features has been the cylindrical reflective attachments that the tracking unit utilizes to navigation-guided surgery as accurate as possible and here are some of its most interesting facts: 1. They work with passive light. Once in place, the reflective attachments work as a guide for the tracking unit to understand exactl

Probe tracing, a third way to register the patient’s face prior to surgery. Parietal and occipital lobe surgical procedures have been always a big challenge for both doctors and navigation system developers. Without facial appearance or prominent areas to link the patient’s features with the imaging-powered software, fusing reality and computer-guided surgical aids puts a major question mark on the accuracy of the technology to be used, a huge disadvantage for the navigation