dominion - what it is...
the DViS isn't going to replace MSCT (multislice ct) scanners, as these can produce way more slices (thinner) slices...and thus chop up organs to detect things...
the DViS provides 16 slice capabilities via cone beam CT technology... nothing new...although cone beam CT came about 15 years ago or so...
the DViS isn't going to replace MRI machines: the two things CT and MRI are completely different... these two types of imaging have different goals and utilize different physics (way different) to achieve these goals.
the DViS is first and foremost a fluoroscope, many of the mobile fluoroscopes today, e.g., the 9900 OEC can cost up to $250,000.00. these fluoroscopes are single planar multi-direction... i.e., the conventional c-shaped c-arm. in the past there have been biplanar c-arms...these didn't really gain favor.
No existing fluoroscope does what the DViS does, the biplanar models tried to gain an advantage in 2D imaging...
so, as one of the rare posters on the yahoo board (who is a medical physicist) and i agree, the DViS is the *** next generation apparatus in fluoroscopically-guided surgery/procedures.
the DViS is like having your cake and eating it too, the cone beam CT aspect of the DViS is like the icing.
simple as that...
more importantly or interestingly, despite that biplanar c-arms didn't really gain favor, but granted they are used accordingly, but there is a neurosurgeon in florida that uses, two conventional c-shaped, i.e., multi-directional, c-arms to produce a make-shift biplanar c-arm...
a single DViS could provide so much better benefit for this neurosurgeon imho.
