Surgical visualization and particle trend analysis system

A surgical visualization system to analyze at least a portion of a surgical field, the system comprising:

• a field programmable gate array configured to transform information indicative of reflected laser-light to information indicative of moving particles in at least the portion of the surgical field;
• a first processor, remote to the field programmable gate array, configured to receive the information indicative of moving particles in at least the portion of the surgical field and to generate a second metric that represents an aggregated state of a first metric of the moving particles in at least the portion of the surgical field;
• and
• a second processor, co-housed with the field programmable gate array, configured to:
• determine to operate in a first mode;
• based on the determination to operate in the first mode, control a display to display the first metric on an image, wherein the first metric represents a present state of moving particles in at least the portion of the surgical field;
• receive an input;
• based on the received input, determine to operate in a second mode;
• and
• based on the determination to operate in the second mode, control the display to display the first metric and the second metric superimposed on the image.

A surgical visualization system to analyze at least a portion of a surgical field, the system comprising:

• a display configured to display an image comprising at least the portion of the surgical field;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• determine to operate in a first mode;
• based on the determination to operate in the first mode, control the display to display a first metric, wherein the first metric represents a present state of moving particles in at least the portion of the surgical field;
• receive an input;
• based on the received input, determine to operate in a second mode;
• and
• based on the determination to operate in the second mode, control the display to display the first metric and a second metric superimposed on the image,
• wherein the second metric represents an aggregated state of the first metric of the moving particles in at least the portion of the surgical field.