Siemens Healthineers announced that it launched an app for surgical planning and medical education on the Apple Vision Pro. The Cinematic Reality app enables users to view immersive, interactive holograms of the human body captured through real-world medical scans. Surgeons, medical students or patients could use this technology. Visualizing through the app could assist in […]
Imaging
Medtronic wins FDA clearance for bone tumor ablation tech
Medtronic announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its OsteoCool 2.0 bone tumor ablation system. The medtech giant designed OsteoCool 2.0 to treat painful bone metastases and benign bone tumors like osteoid osteoma. The minimally invasive procedure uses probes to deliver radiofrequency energy that heats and destroys tumors. Meanwhile, it circulates water to […]
Philips, SyntheticMR partner on AI-based brain imaging
Philips announced today that it launched its Smart Quant Neuro 3D for brain disorder diagnosis and therapy. The company unveiled the system at ECR2024 in partnership with Swedish MRI software solutions company SyntheticMR. Smart Quant Neuro 3D provides objective decision support for disorders like multiple sclerosis (MS), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and dementia. According to […]
FDA clears new radiotherapy systems from Siemens Healthineers’ Varian
Varian announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its TrueBeam and Edge radiotherapy systems with HyperSight imaging. The Siemens Healthineers company designed HyperSight to empower clinicians to accurately tailor treatments to individual patients. This helps improve patient outcomes, thanks to new capabilities and workflows across the company’s linear accelerators. HyperSight allows clinicians to […]
Philips unveils new AI-enabled CT imaging tech
Philips announced today that it launched its CT 5300 system, a flexible X-ray CT platform with advanced AI capabilities. Amsterdam-based Philips says the system increases diagnostic confidence, streamlines workflow efficiency and maximizes system up-time. It helps to improve overall patient outcomes and department productivity. Philips unveiled the new system at ECR2024. CT 5300 meets advanced […]
Endoscopic ultrasound company EndoSound has a new CEO
EndoSound announced today that it appointed Scott Aldrich Jr. as its new CEO in a move that went into effect on Feb. 1. Dr. Stephen Steinberg, who previously served as president and CEO, remains on the Portland, Oregon–based company’s leadership team as chief medical officer. Aldrich most recently served as an independent consultant focusing on […]
Stryker reports first shoulder arthroplasty with Blueprint MR guidance system in Europe
Stryker announced today that surgeons completed the first shoulder arthroplasty surgeries in Europe using its Blueprint guidance. Dr. Julien Berhouet (Tours Hospital, France) and Dr. Lionel Neyton (Centre Orthopédique Santy and Hôpital Privé Jean Mermoz, France) performed the cases. These cases follow the first surgeries using the mixed reality (MR) guidance in North America last […]
Philips launches new Azurion neuro biplane system for neurovascular interventions
Philips announced today that it made major enhancements to its Azurion image-guided therapy system with a new launch. The Amsterdam-based medtech giant unveiled its new Azurion neuro biplane system at ECR 2024. It designed the system to streamline neurovascular procedures and help care teams make the right decisions and do so faster. This enables the […]
Philips unveils radiation-free imaging tech that uses light instead of X-ray
Philips announced the introduction of its new LumiGuide imaging technology that uses light to help navigate blood vessels. The company has now made LumiGuide — first used in late 2023 to treat patients in the Netherlands — available to major aortic centers that perform complex aortic repairs in the U.S. and Europe. LumiGuide offers radiation-free […]
New ClearPoint Neuro software wins FDA clearance, used in first cases
ClearPoint Neuro (Nasdaq:CLPT) announced that the FDA cleared its ClearPoint 2.2 software with integrated Maestro Brain Modeling. The Solana Beach, California-based company also reported the first-in-human cases following the FDA clearance. ClearPoint Neuro President and CEO Joe Burnett said the system now offers fast, peri-procedural segmentation of the cortical structures of the brain. This helps […]
Sira Medical wins FDA nod for augmented reality surgical planning tech
Sira Medical announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its augmented reality (AR) preoperative surgical planning application. The San Francisco-based company’s application offers clinicians with advanced imaging to assist in making key patient management decisions. According to a news release, Sira Medical wants to address a lack of clarity caused by hidden anatomy […]