A technique that uses real-time imaging combined with augmented reality to remove early stage lung tumors and other lesions has taken another step closer to broader use.
Navigation Sciences, a Brookline, Mass.-based company, is licensing rights to develop for commercialization the combined use of technologies, having received exclusive rights from Brigham and Women’s Hospital to further develop the approach.
The technology, called image guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS), is intended to provide real-time navigation to precisely locate and excise tumors. Navigation Sciences and Brigham and Women’s executives say the approach has shown potential to improve surgical outcomes, increase operating room efficiency and surgical precision.
