Patent Issued on 3-D Surgical Navigation Technology

A United States patent has issued on surgical navigation technology that enables surgeons to see through internal structures and guide their surgical instruments during surgical procedures. The patent was issued to Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA), which has granted licensed the technology exclusively to Cbyon, Inc. (also in Palo Alto).

Cbyon markets the technology as the 3-D Savant software suite to hospitals and surgeons.
The software can generate images using perspective 3-D rendering and utilize this for correlating medical images with live video endoscopic or microscopic images. Cbyon says that perspective volumetric imaging represents a significant breakthrough from conventional image-guided surgery, which only displays surface-rendered images, without incorporating images of the patient's internal anatomy in the appropriate perspective.

The patented technology also creates the basis for the Cbyon Image Enhanced Endoscopy module, which gives surgeons more accurate and detailed information for performing minimally invasive surgery. This module displays a virtual anatomic image, which is both matched and synchronized with the same perspective of the actual endoscopic image. Initial applications cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) include neurosurgical, spine, and ear-nose-throat surgeries, where minimal disruption of tissues is critical to ensure patient safety.

"Surgeons performing minimally invasive surgeries in the brain and spine will benefit greatly from Cbyon's perspective volumetric imaging,” said John R. Adler, professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University. "This means that patients benefit by less pain, fewer complications, and faster recoveries.”



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