Another virtual colonoscopy product joins the field with the Food and Drug Administration’s clearance of the V3D-Colon hardware and software package from Viatronix.
The system is based on a Windows NT platform, and provides 2-D or 3-D views of diagnostic CT or MR images of the colon. The system was initially given a 510(k) in November 2000, but the new clearance allows Stony Brook, NY-based Viatronix to market it as a screening tool.
V3D-Colon users can navigate freely -- or follow automatically computed paths to fly through the colon or around the outside of the colon structure.
Viatronix has added product upgrades, such as 2-D Flight, so the program automatically flies through all the 2-D slices down the centerline. The software can capture movies, so the physician can take a segment of a 3-D fly-through and put it on a CD for patients or other physicians.
The entire colon module will cost around $135,000, according to a company spokesperson, and includes a viewer and a processor as well as software.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersApril 19, 2002
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