“Navigator” to guide doctor’s scalpel in high-precision surgery

Print 23 December 2015
MarchMont Innovation News

Russia’s largest government-owned tech corporation, Rostec, is completing the development of medical systems called “Navigator” to help surgeons navigate with high precision through the human organs and tissues during complex surgeries. The new systems are expected to hit the market in 2017,  announced  United Instrumentation Corp. (UIC), one of Rostec’s assets. 

The Navigator stations are said to enable surgeries in two modes: electromagnetic, where electromagnetic fields are used to monitor the location of surgical instruments, and optical, where the monitoring is conducted visually. 

The stations also make it possible to create 3D models of an area to be operated on, a function that surgeons need badly in pre-surgery planning. 

That is now enabled through the possibility to upload to the stations a wide range of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, X-ray images, and ultrasound scanning results. 

Surgeries that require enhanced precision and may therefore benefit from the use of the new systems reportedly include, but are not limited to, “brain surgeries, vertebral column surgeries, knee and hip endoprosthesis surgeries, etc.” 

According to Alexander Kulish of UIC, the Russian surgical navigation station “is much less expensive than the international competition.” The manager believes the solution “will fully meet the demand for such systems in the domestic market.”

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