Medical imaging innovators seek Aussie breakthrough
Medical imaging innovators seek Aussie breakthrough
Oct 18, 2004: A French company which specialises in intraoperative detection technology for the medical profession is on the lookout for an Australian distributor for its latest piece of innovative medical imaging technology.
Euromedical, which is part of the Eurorad Group is looking to introduce the Minicam in to the Australian market. The Minicam is the first EC marked mini ambulatory gamma camera recognised by the medical and surgical community.
The Minicam was developed in order to locate with precision radioactive-tagged tissues (sentinel node, tumour etc.) emitting gamma radiation. Thanks to its precision, the Minicam ensures the smallest possible incision, making for less mutilating and intrusive surgery.
With its CdTe technology detector head (camera) and a g-Cam electronics module, the Minicam system ensures very rapid detection (one minute) of the sentinel node or tumour, saving a significant amount of time and providing a gain in precision for the surgeon. Specially designed for small operative fields, it also helps to ease congestion in conventional nuclear medicine departments, that can thus be reserved for examinations requiring more cumbersome equipment.
Connected to a desktop computer, the Minicam system provides visualisation of the pictures being taken (an acquisition software installation disk is supplied). The detector head, made with cadmium telluride detectors, is designed for low-energy detection (30 – 200 keV). It has excellent spatial resolution and provides high quality pictures.
As to the electronics module, it contains all the modules required for signal processing. The software programme allows the user to select the kind of picture he/she wants to display as well as the various acquisition parameters.
The camera is fixed and set up with a Geomed Assisto fixing arm (stand) supplied with the system; the system is installed on a cart making it a fully self-contained and ambulatory system.
The technology is already in use in France, Spain, the Netherlands and the United-Kingdom.
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