Software Lets Surgeons See Through Patients

The system is based on a software platform called Perspective Volume Rendering, which employs algorithms and computer processors to render a 3-D representation of patient anatomy using diagnostic imaging data acquired from computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or positron emission tomography (PET).

The system is called Cbyon Suite and is the product of Cbyon, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA, USA). Perspective Volume Rendering was developed by biomedical engineers and surgeons from the Image Guidance Laboratory in Stanford University's department of neurosurgery. Cybon Suite integrates the 3-D representation with a variety of virtual and actual surgical tools. These include the following features or modules: virtual endoscopy, virtual endoscope, virtual fluoroscopy, dynamic data filtering, and image synchronization.

"Our R&D team is enhancing the system to accommodate integration of real-time ultrasound images, which would expand use of the system to include soft-tissue biopsy procedures and cardiac, gastrointestinal and gynecologic surgeries,” said Mitchell Seyedin, Ph.D., president and CEO of Cybon.




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