The Surgeon, 02/2020
"Medical Spectral Imaging allows quantitative tissue analysis beyond the limitation of the human eye."
General Surgery
Further studies will investigate HSI technology as a method for objective tissue assessment in thyroid surgery. The autofluorescence property of the parathyroid gland offers a v...
Anaesthesia and intensive care
Especially in critically ill patients, microcirculatory changes are associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Therefore, it is particularly important in intensive care and emergency medicine to...
Dermatology
In dermatology, too, the optimization of the care of acute and chronic wounds is the focus of many clinical studies. In addition to wound cleansing, modern bioactive wound dressings and ...
Vascular Surgery
Several studies demonstrate the clinical potential of the hyperspectral technique for the assessment of problem wounds of the diabetic foot or chronic wounds in patients with PAOD.
In the amputatio...
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
In the field of maxillofacial surgery, the perfusion of free or pedicled flap grafts is currently being monitored using TIVITA . The hyperspectral analysis of the tissues has so far shown signs of a...
Neurosurgery
For the resection of brain tumors, MRI scans are taken preoperatively to localize the tumor and subsequently plan the surgical procedure. Intraoperatively, the...
Plastic surgery / burn medicine
In plastic surgery, HSI technology is used, among other things, for the dynamic and pathophysiological assessment of flap plastics, grafts and burn wounds. Poorly perf...
Rheumatology
An example of a rheumatic systemic disease is systemic scleroderma with pulmonary and severe skin manifestations. The symptoms are acral ulcerations on the knuckles, which are...
Transplant Medicine
In addition to factors such as the age and state of health of the donor, organ preservation makes a decisive contribution to the functionality of an organ and thus to the success of the transplantation.
In the last few y...
Visceral Surgery
The most important clinical applications in visceral surgery are currently the intraoperative assessment of anastomoses, the resection margin in the context of colorectal surgery as well as the clo...
Wound Medicine
With the TIVITA® 2.0 Wound Edition, diagnosticians and clinicians are able to qualitatively and quantitatively assess wounds of any origin non-invasively and within a few seconds....