for all sorts of cases."
Bigger, better
images
4K video has been the
darling of the surgical
world the past few
years, but new 8K
technology is now
starting to hit the
market. While stan-
dard HD has 2 million
pixels, and 4K dis-
plays have more than
8 million pixels, 8K
has an impressive
7680 × 4320-pixel
matrix — or more
than 33 million pixels
— resulting in images
that are almost life-
like.
Though a complete
8K surgical video sys-
tem (including the
towers, scopes and
monitors) isn't yet on
the market,
researchers in other
countries that have
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