The startup that wants to give surgeons X-ray vision

“Have you ever seen a spine surgery before?”Recommended Video Over Zoom, James Hu asks me this sincerely, standing in the middle of a large white room that reads between clinical and stylized. I consider the question, not because I have, but because it occurs to me: I’ve perhaps never thought much about it at all, and suspect many people haven’t. But it’s a medical phenomenon—and a surgical tightrope. Hu, a doctor and cofounder of surgical precision access and visualization platform Illuminant, breaks it down: The spine is a high-wire part of the human body, where even infinitesimal mistakes can be disastrous. He demonstrates for me on a dummy. “If you go towards the middle, that’s the spinal cord, and if you hit that, the patient is paralyzed,” Hu gestures.

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