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CBYON Offers New Opportunities For Minimally Invasive Surgery |
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CBYON Offers New Opportunities For Minimally Invasive Surgery
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| PALO ALTO, CA -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 01/08/2001 -- CBYON, Inc., a medical technology company, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently issued a broad, enabling patent related to the Company's surgical navigation technology, which is marketed as the CBYON SAVANT(TM) software suite to hospitals and surgeons so they may see through internal structures and guide surgical instruments during surgery. On December 26, 2000, U.S. Patent No. 6,167,296 entitled "Method for Volumetric Image Navigation" was issued to Stanford University. CBYON is the exclusive licensee of this patent from Stanford University, which also includes additional pending U.S. and foreign patent applications.
This patent gives CBYON the exclusive right to generate images using perspective three-dimensional rendering, and utilizing such method for correlating medical images with live video endoscopic or microscopic images. Perspective volumetric imaging represents a significant breakthrough from conventional image-guided surgery technology, which only displays surface rendered images without incorporating images of the patient's internal anatomy in the appropriate perspective. The 3D SAVANT imaging software gives surgeons true 3D X-ray vision. The technology covered by the patent creates the basis for the CBYON Image Enhanced Endoscopy module, which gives surgeons more accurate and detailed information than ever before possible for performing minimally invasive surgeries.
"We are extremely pleased to receive this patent, as it protects our exclusivity in providing the world's first set of Surgical Anatomy Visualization and Navigation Tools (the 3D SAVANT Suite)," said Mitchell Seyedin, Ph.D., CBYON President and Chief Executive Officer. "The 3D SAVANT Image Enhanced Endoscopy module is a proprietary product that displays a virtual anatomic image, which is both matched and synchronized with the same perspective of the actual endoscopic image. Initial FDA 510K cleared applications include neurosurgical, spine, and ear nose and throat (ENT) surgeries, where minimal disruption of tissues is critical to ensure patient safety."
The core-patented technology was developed by Ramin Shahidi, Ph.D., Director of the Image Guidance Laboratories, Stanford Medical Center and scientific founder of CBYON, and is exclusively licensed to CBYON. The 3D SAVANT Suite provides surgeons with the ability to operate with greater precision and accuracy, which could lead to improved patient outcomes, and enables the transformation of open surgical procedures into minimally invasive surgeries.
According to Dr. Shahidi, "Until very recently, the task of correlating preoperative two-dimensional CT or MRI scans or intraoperative x-ray or video images with the actual 3D anatomy of the surgical site depended on the individual surgeon's knowledge of anatomy and his surgical experience. Now, powerful CBYON software can perform that task for the surgeon and display the images in real time. Our recently issued patent covers two key technology features, which provide the surgeon with powerful tools for minimally invasive procedures. First is the use of 3D perspective rendering for intraoperative image-based guidance of surgical instruments. Second, and most importantly, is the correlation of intraoperative video images such as those from endoscopes or microscopes with 3D perspective images rendered from preoperative or intraoperative scans."
John R. Adler, Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University, commented, "A patient's anatomy does not look like a two-dimensional CT scan when viewed through an endoscope or microscope during surgery. Perspective 3D rendering combined with instrument tracking is therefore very useful to correlate the computer images visually to the real patient, as seen by the surgeon. Surgeons performing minimally invasive surgeries in the brain and spine will benefit greatly from CBYON's perspective volumetric imaging. This means that patients benefit by less pain, fewer complications and faster recoveries."
By tracking surgical instruments in real time, the 3D SAVANT Suite shows exactly where the surgeon's tools are in relation to the patient's anatomy. It also can selectively display structures, such as blood vessels or other sensitive anatomical structures, that lie in the path of the surgical tool. 3D SAVANT offers true "3D X-ray vision," so surgeons can navigate around and see internal structures through opaque surface tissues that would not be visible using previously available image-guided surgery techniques. A unique feature of 3D SAVANT is video correlation for image-enhanced endoscopy, which provides the accuracy not possible through other means. This technology gives the surgeon real-time, 3D and 2D information for both planning and navigational purposes and opens the door to more effective utilization of minimally invasive surgeries.
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Contact: Shirley Clayton
Company: CYBON
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: 650-842-1800
Email: sclayton@CBYON.com
Contact: Bernt Nordin
Company: CYBON
Title: VP of Marketing and Business Development
Phone: 650-842-1800
Email: bernt@CBYON.com
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