Hospital First in U.S. to Gain Imactis CT-Navigation System

UW Health, the academic medical center and health system of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is using a new approach to computed tomography (CT) guided procedures. It is the first U.S. hospital to acquire the Imactis CT-Navigation system, which can be used during percutaneous interventional radiological procedures performed under CT such as tumor ablations, biopsies, musculoskeletal interventions, and other needle-based interventions, Imactis reported in a news release. With the Imactis CT-Navigation system, a “radiologist can select and check a needle’s planned trajectory in real time, by the patient’s side, as opposed to remotely from the control room, with static images,” Georges Tabary, Imactis's CEO, told MD+DI. According to a video posted to YouTube, a fiducial from Imactis is placed on the patient’s skin and a CT image is acquired by a traditional CT unit and automatically transferred to the Imactis station that is wheeled up to the patient lying on the CT bed. The radiologist uses the Imactis needle holder to spot the target and plot the injection trajectory on the patient, without using the CT console. Tabary called the Imactis CT Navigation system a “universal solution that works with all thoraco-abdominal organs, all CTs, and all needles,” and it “works well with beginners as well as experts.” It requi...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Imaging Source Type: news