Traxtal Highlights PercuNav System's Powerful Capabilities for Diagnostic Imaging
TORONTO, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Traxtal, Inc., the pioneer and world
leader in image guided soft tissue navigation, will showcase the PercuNav(TM)
system's capabilities for diagnostic imaging at the Radiological Society of
North America's 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting.
The PercuNav system provides interventional radiologists and sonographers
with the broadest image fusion capabilities available for soft tissue
navigation. It also delivers powerful solutions for diagnostic imaging.
Physicians can identify and mark areas of interest on CT or MR scans which can
then be overlaid with live ultrasound for diagnostic scanning. This allows
areas of interest to be quickly located and compared under both imaging
modalities, while compensating for patient motion and respiration.
Neil Glossop, PhD, Traxtal President, said, "The PercuNav's integrated
diagnostic image matching capabilities enable it to be used to rapidly cross
match findings from diagnostic CT or MR with ultrasound or the reverse. This
enables users to identify areas of interest on one modality and quickly
correlate them to the location on another modality. This allows them to better
characterize the areas of interest and potentially increase the diagnostic
yield. This feature is particularly valuable for lesions that are difficult to
spot on one modality and may be helpful in determining how to treat the
patient."
Traxtal is in Booth 9539 in the North Building, Hall B of McCormick Place
in Chicago for RSNA's annual meeting, which will be held from November 30 to
December 5, 2008.
The PercuNav system is the only computer assisted, image-guided diagnostic
and interventional system cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for
all imaging modalities, and is the only such system that features a broad
range of flexible and rigid "tip-tracked" instruments. It is also the only
commercially available soft tissue navigation system with tracked
instrumentation that provides the option of navigation with multimodal image
fusion with any single modality, such as CT or ultrasound imaging.
The PercuNav system consists of the Traxtal Tx(TM) mobile system cart,
PercuNav software, and a wide range of instruments including flexible needles,
biopsy devices and RFA introducers. Using minute electro-magnetic sensors
embedded in the tips of these instruments, the software superimposes the
precise, real-time location and orientation of the instruments on pre-
operative and live images of the patient. The system also incorporates
advanced techniques for compensating for patient motion and respiration. It
acts like a GPS system for medical instruments, and is the only such product
available that allows accurate tracking of flexible instrument tips inside a
patient's anatomy.
Traxtal is committed to providing seamless compatibility with all major
vendors' imaging systems.
About Traxtal, Inc.
Traxtal, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is the world leader and proven
pioneer in the innovation, development and manufacture of computer assisted
soft tissue navigation technologies. Introduced in 2007, its PercuNav system
is the only image-guided diagnostic and interventional system cleared by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration for all imaging modalities, and the only
such system that features a broad range of flexible and rigid instruments.
Traxtal was founded in 1996 to focus exclusively on the advanced design of
instrumentation for image guided intervention, and has extensive experience in
image guided intervention as an OEM supplier of custom designed tools since
1997.
Contact:
Natasha Glossop
Chief Operating Officer
Traxtal, Inc.
416/603-8349
Media:
Steve DiMattia
EVC Group, Inc.
646/201-5445
