Creating 3D 'road map' to locate lung cancer cells

Dr Akash Verma and Senior Staff Nurse Chin Mee Choo with equipment for navigational bronchoscopy. In the procedure, a three-dimensional "road map" is created and it shows several routes a doctor can take to insert a tube into the lung to the target s
Dr Akash Verma and Senior Staff Nurse Chin Mee Choo with equipment for navigational bronchoscopy. In the procedure, a three-dimensional "road map" is created and it shows several routes a doctor can take to insert a tube into the lung to the target site with the suspected cancer cells.ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Procedure using VR and GPS-guided system allows docs to pinpoint cells more accurately