Some of the tools for this had been around for a hundred years, but it had only been used as a diagnostic technique until the 1980s, when there was changes in camera technologies and things like that, that allowed this to be done for real operations.
Neka od oruđa za ovo su bila prisutna preko stotinu godina. Ali je korištena kao dijagnostička tehnika do osamdesetih, s promjenama u tehnologiji kamere i stvarima poput ove, koje su dopustile da se ovo radi za prave operacije.