Digital Imaging Combined with Magnetic Navigation System

This approach allows for 360o rotation of the catheter and should provide greater precision and better movement than manual methods. The system combines the Axiom Artis dFC digital fluoroscopic imaging system of Siemens Medical Solutions (Erlangen, Germany)with the magnetic navigation technology of Stereotaxis (Maple Grove, MN, USA) and is the result of Siemens' exclusive partnership with Stereotaxis.

The system fits into a standard catheterization lab room and is designed to allow doctors to perform the majority of the procedures remotely from the control room, using a joystick. This protects doctors from long-term radiation exposure. Siemens says cardiac catheterization procedures have grown by more than 50% in the past eight years.

"I am confident that magnetic navigation during interventional cardiology procedures will prove extremely helpful, especially in tortuous anatomy and chronic total occlusions,” said Gary L. Schaer, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center (Chicago, IL. USA).




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