Tecnicongress and Christie carry out the first broadcast of 3D vitrectomy surgery in Spain

Christie HD14K-M projectors have played a leading role in the first live broadcast of a 3D vitrectomy ophthalmological surgery session in Spain, organized in Elche by the Ophthalmology Service of the General University Hospital of this city in the province of Alicante.

To achieve this broadcast, the specialist Tecnicongress Audiovisual has been responsible for the audiovisual engineering of the project, in which it has facilitated everything from taking 3D images to programming 3D medical equipment, ENG 3D cameras, signal mix, processing and sending to various terrestrial links with broadcast in Full HD.

La operación, consisting of four interventions with four specialists, It was performed in the non-admission surgery unit of the General University Hospital of Elche and was broadcast live to the city's congress center., where more than two hundred ophthalmologists and heads of services from all over Spain gathered to watch the session, framed in the V Vitrectomy Meeting, a very specific microsurgical technique.

The Tecnicongress team technically prepared the congress center for the event, with the installation of a special screen for 3D projections (of 8,30 x4,60 m. in format 16:9). The two projectors Christie HD14K-M, with 3DLP technology and 13.500 lumens, managed with the company's Twist system and located at a distance of 25 m.

Both equipment was adjusted to the maximum to achieve the most reliable 3D projection possible., made passively through polarized glass, to which a backup team was added.

Each projector was responsible for reproducing a section of the image in a side-by-side configuration., one taking the image of the right eye and the other taking the image of the left eye through the electronics incorporated in the equipment. The signals were made with Analog Way's Di-VentiX II and with Full HD resolution at all times.

Besides, The Tecnicongress R&D department created an automated computer controlled via PC, through which, placing the polarized windows in it and always in front of the projectors, allowed the glass in front of the projectors to be removed through software, since at specific moments the 2D projection was necessary and, then in 3D, in a continuous manner so that attendees could follow each clinical case without problems.

As Juan Pina explains, CEO of Tecnicongress, highlights the performance of Christie equipment, We opted for the 14Ks for this event because they are ideal in terms of performance, as in weight, size and other characteristics that for us make it the perfect machine”.

This company, which has different Christie projectors, has just acquired two units of its laser phosphorus equipment, of 8.000 lumens and BoldColor technology, "that will be the jewel in the crown, for its great benefits, for projections of intermediate sized rooms. In the future, “We hope to buy a large number of units to serve our offices in Madrid and Alicante.”, says Pina.