Visualization system with stereo-volumetric intraoperative OCT and stereoscopic camera

A visualization system comprising:

• a housing assembly having a head unit configured to be at least partially directed towards a target site;
• an optical coherence tomography (OCT) module and a stereoscopic camera located in the housing assembly;
• a controller in communication with the OCT module and the stereoscopic camera, the controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded;
• a display unit in communication with the controller;
• wherein the controller is adapted to acquire left OCT data and right OCT data of the target site, via the OCT module, and synchronously acquire left camera data and right camera data of the target site, via the stereoscopic camera;
• wherein the controller is adapted to generate volume-rendered images, including:
• first and second OCT images respectively based on the left OCT data and the right OCT data, and first and second camera images respectively based on the left camera data and the right camera data;
• wherein the first and second OCT images and the first and second camera images have matching parallax, the volume-rendered images being respectively aligned in perspective and scaling;
• wherein the controller is adapted to use a variable gamma factor as a function of depth to display the volume-rendered images;
• and
• wherein the controller is adapted to display the volume-rendered images adjacent to one another on the display unit.