Spinal injury surgery improved with x-ray based navigationRSS Feed

Ziehm Imaging and BrainLAB have extended their cooperation to assist surgeons in the intra-operative guidance of pedicle screw and hardware placement during surgical trauma and spinal instrumentation procedures.

NaviPort, developed by Ziehm, now allows high-resolution 3D images from the Ziehm Vision2 FD Vario 3D mobile C-arm to be used for surgical navigation driven by BrainLAB technology.

The Vision2 FD Vario 3D provides distortion-free, fully-digital flat-panel technology which reproduces images in more than 16,000 shades of grey.

This technology can assist surgeons by providing an improved overview of the finest anatomical structures in three dimensions, for example, when inserting screws and implants.

According to Zeinheim, 3D imaging is a crucial aid to surgeons operating on spinal injuries to the spinal column as studies prove that pedicle screws are positioned erroneously in 40 per cent of all operations that do not employ X-ray monitoring.

Spinal-Research.org said that every year more than 800 people in the UK and Ireland are paralysed following an injury to their spinal cord.

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