Fujifilm Healthcare Americas and Brainlab have inked a partnership that sets Brainlab as the exclusive U.S. distributor of Arietta Precision Ultrasound for neurosurgery applications to be used with Brainlab's surgical navigation systems.
Brainlab will distribute Arietta Precision as a standalone product alongside and with its Ultrasound Navigation software. The company said that this offering is expected to be cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and available in the U.S. in mid-2024. The combination of these technologies will offer neurosurgeons real-time insights through live intraoperative ultrasound during neurosurgical procedures.
Both companies highlighted that digital integration between Brainlab surgical navigation systems and Fujifilm’s Arietta Precision will streamline system setup for cranial imaging and “plug-and-play” workflows with precalibrated and sterilizable neurosurgery transducers. They added that the combined technologies provide neurosurgeons with automatic view layouts, including the ability to superimpose intraoperative 3D ultrasound scans onto the preoperative dataset for a more comprehensive overview of the resection cavity.
