by
Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | January 23, 2017
Cuts spinal registration
down to 20 seconds
Toronto-based 7D Surgical announced today that it received FDA clearance and a medical device license from Health Canada for its Machine-vision Imaging-Guided Surgery system for spine procedures.
The 7D Surgical System is comprised of 3-D optical technologies and machine vision algorithms. The MIGS navigation technology is embedded in the overhead surgical light and is controlled by the surgeon via a foot pedal.
It can automatically register spinal surgery patients using only visible light, unlike conventional image-guided surgery systems that require intraoperative radiation.
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The conventional IGS systems also require the use of manual point-matching techniques, which are time-consuming and expensive. Beau Standish, CEO of 7D Surgical, believes that the inefficiencies of those systems have limited the adoption of IGS in spine procedures to less than 20 percent.
Typically, it can take up to 30 minutes for surgeons to perform
de novo spinal registration, but the 7D Surgical System can cut that down to 20 seconds.
"Image-guided surgery technology has finally caught up to the needs of a practicing spine surgeon," Dr. Frank Cammisa, chief emeritus of the spine service at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, said in a statement.
