Iran-Made Navigation System Facilitates Treatment of Brain Injuries, Tumors for Surgeons
“Our company uses advanced technologies for processing and displaying medical images combined with real-time positioning of surgical instruments to perform the surgical processes of brain tumors, sinus and skull base surgeries, brain sampling and spine surgery with high precision and reliability,” said Alireza Ahmadian, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
Noting that in surgery with navigation, in addition to identifying the exact position of the lesion within the structures of the central nervous system (brain or spinal cord), a safer route for neurosurgery is created, he said, “Surgical navigation is similar to mobile or car GPS, and by using this tracking system, it can show the position of the surgical tool in the patient's CT scan or MRI images to the surgeon at any moment so that the surgeon can have accurate information about the position of his/her tool.”
“The smart surgery system produced in our company has advantages like increasing surgical accuracy, reducing the probability of tumor recurrence, and increasing the probability of removing the tumor completely, and it does not require repeated surgeries, reducing damage to other sensitive organs of the patient,” Ahmadian said.
In a relevant development last December, a technological team consisting of several Iranian specialists in different scientific fields had also managed to build a device which shows the 3D images of the surgical site to the surgeon before operation.
"We are an interdisciplinary team of specialized fields of bone marrow, medicine, medical imaging, polymer engineering, and chemistry and we have produced a device that displays the surgical site to the doctor in 3D,” Mohammad Sadeq Tavalli, the managing-director of Narges Fanavaran Fars stationed at the incubator center of Islamic Azad University’s Shiraz branch.
“This product makes the specific surgical site in 3D and provides it to the surgeon based on the CT scan images and the surgeon's opinion before the operation and familiarizes the doctor with the disease’s conditions from different angles through pre-planning, and as a result, it increases the speed of operation and decreases bleeding in the patient,” he added.
"The device even gives the doctor the opportunity to take images before the surgery and check the patient's so-called cosmetic changes in the skull after the operation,” Tavalli said.
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