CT-guided system close to 510(k)
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Drs Ferenc Jolesz and Ron Kikinis of The Brigham and Women's Hospital Surgical Planning Laboratory have been working with Boston-based Visualization Technology (VT) to develop an intra-operative tracking system for sinus surgery. The VT system uses Sun's SPARCstation 5 to overlay the position of an aspirator-probe on three orthogonal CT images together with video from the probe. The standard aspirator is tracked electromagnetically using three sensors on a headset which also registers the data to the CT image.
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