borntwice do you 1) understand what an interventional procedure is; 2) understand what fluoroscopic guidance is; 3) when or where #1 and #2 take place; and 4) the differences between multidirectional single plane fluoroscopes and biplanar fluoroscopes.
also, do you understand what the term fluoroscope means, i'll give you this one...to view by light. think medical terminology...scope means to view, hence an otoscope views the ear...an arthoscopic procedure is viewing the joint...and an endoscope is to view the insides...
nonsurgical intervention can be used interchangeably with interventional procedures...
fluoroscopic guidance is done for both interventional and surgical procedures...
these occur in the operating room and/or fluoro suites.
all x-ray imaging is based on orthogonal views...look up orthogonal...then think about the term orthopedics.
a fluoroscope is a c-arm, a tool used by physicians during surgical- or nonsurgical- intervention.
all single plane multidirectional c-arms view things in one plane at a time to see things in 2d.
all biplanar c-arms allow 2 plane of views of 2d imagery each. for the most part, these didn't really catch on.
nothing produces 3d, except the IMGG's DViS.
you should view my prior messages to see exactly why this off the shelf product isn't a commodity and rather unique and protected by a wide patent.
there is a trend developing in medical imaging which is going toward 3d imagery... for example, for his interventional procedure, we had someone on thursday bring in his lumbar spine MRI films, and the center where his MRI was performed included an MRI myelogram (these are typically post processed to become 3d, however, these particular images where shown on film and thus typical 2d appearance -- water weighted images).
***but as to more on this trend, again, please view my prior posts and look for the abstract on this concerning CT 3d postprocessing trends which i link you to the journal, radiologic technology.
so, in summary, the DViS by IMGG represents the next generation apparatus in fluoroscopic-guidance -- which is indeed new (not a commodity) and if a maker of a fixed fluoro suite (as opposed to mobile c-arms) wants to integrate the REALTIME 3d nature that IMGG created, then they (other makers/manufacturers) will need to play ball in IMGG's court.
by the way, c-arms are not just mobile units, the fluoroscopes in fixed fluoro suites are also technically c-arms...
but what we got with the DViS is an O-arm...but not to be confused with the medtronic O-arm...AS THE MEDTRONIC O-ARM DOES NOT DO REALTIME...
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