Grapefruit USA Inc (GPFT)

[goldcoastoh]

hi, not directed to me, but if i may interject, the DViS represents the next generation in fluoroscopic guided procedures/surgery.

the medtronic's o-arm does not do realtime 3d imaging.

dominion - what it is...

the DViS provides 16 slice capabilities via cone beam CT technology... nothing new...although cone beam CT came about 15 years ago or so... such units can run approx. $300,000.00.

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...

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.

now, let's talk orthopedic surgeons...they could easily adapt to use of the DViS imho.