Diagnostic Imaging Magazine
By: Greg Freiherr
CT scanners are going places they have never gone before. One system is headed into the operating room.
Xoran Technologies' xCAT is being designed to take brain images of anesthetized patients to track progress made during surgery. Prototypes of the scanner have entered limited clinical use at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. Dr. David W. Kennedy, director of rhinology at the Penn Health System, uses xCAT scans to update a computer-assisted navigation system.
"The low radiation dose makes it possible to scan a patient toward the end of a surgery and identify what, if any, disease we may have left, and then go and remove it while the patient is still asleep," said Kennedy, a pioneer of endoscopic sinus surgery in the U.S. and an early adopter of image-guided surgery.
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