Three values

“Intra­operative 3D imaging is recognized as the most advanced mobile device imaging tech­nol­ogy for achieving complete CT-like image infor­ma­tion in just one scan pro­ce­dure. For us, the ability to switch seam­lessly among intra­oper­ative navi­ga­tion, CT-like 3D imaging, and 2D fluo­ro­scopy pro­vides an ideal com­bi­na­tion for daily spine and trauma cases such as this par­tic­u­lar dis­tal radius frac­ture.”

— Professor Wolfgang Böcker
University Hospital Munich, Germany

Medical product design has its own set of rules. It’s about more than aes­thet­ically pleasing shapes or haptics. Health­care tech­nol­ogy must meet high require­ments for safety and hygiene, reflect state-of-the-art research, and feature han­dling that is clearly under­stand­able and intu­i­tive. A look at the design infor­ma­tion for the Ziehm Vision RFD 3D demon­strates the wide variety of dimen­sions involved in plan­ning all of the details.

“The cochlear implant is an inner ear pros­the­sis that reha­bil­i­tates severe to pro­found sen­so­ri­neu­ral hear­ing loss in patients who haven’t bene­fitted from con­ven­tional sound ampli­fi­cation. 3D imaging plays a vital role for us in plan­ning, imple­men­tation, con­trol and, there­fore, the suc­cess­ful place­ment of a cochlear implant. Especially the new, higher reso­lu­tion of 512 voxels signif­i­cantly improves the visu­al­i­za­tion of details, with razor-sharp images of even the smallest anatomical struc­tures in the middle and inner ear as well as the tiny electrode con­tacts within the cochlea. The result is a highly suc­cess­ful hearing out­come, providing our patients with great improve­ments in their everyday lives.”

— Professor Dr. Diana Arweiler-Harbeck 
University Hospital Essen, Germany

“The Ortho­pedic Trauma Divi­sion at the Univer­sity of Texas Health Science Center provides treat­ment for the full spec­trum of ortho­pedic trauma. 3D imag­ing has been a ‘game changer’ for me and my colleagues. It has improved not only our tech­ni­cal capacities and judg­ment, but also our teach­ing of medi­cal stu­dents and resi­dents and our care of patients here in Houston. Mis­placed screws can be cor­rected, sub­optimal reductions can be adjusted – all with­out the dreaded delays in diagnosis, the need for revision sur­geries, or other related problems. With intra­oper­ative 3D imaging, treat­ments are more precise and patient safety increases.”

— Dr. Milton Routt
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA

“3D Imaging allows us to achieve high precision in com­plex sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures. More­over, with the ability to per­form intra­oper­ative con­trol scans, we can con­sider­ably reduce the need for post­oper­ative CT scans. With this 3D scan of a cervical spine there are signif­i­cant dose savings com­pared to a CT exam­i­nation. For me, dealing respon­sibly with radia­tion is one of the most impor­tant para­meters when it comes to patient safety. For this reason, my team and I value the Low Dose Mode that helps us achieve excep­tional clini­cal images with mini­mized radia­tion.”

— Prof. Christoph Josten
University Hospital Leipzig, Germany