Missouri Patent of the Month – October 2022
Founded in 2005, Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. has focused their expertise on empowering earlier cancer diagnoses. Their approach to this mission is through the development of tools that better support doctors. Their main, proprietary system is their SPiN Thoracic Navigation System® which puts you in control of bronchoscopic yields to help speed time to diagnosis.
There has been an increase in the number of patients expecting lung cancer screening, definitive diagnostics can help prevent unneeded lung resurrections. Only about 4% of patients from the initial screening are found to have a malignancy. Veran Medical’s SPiN system, supported by their newly patented localization needle, helps to more accurately and efficiently detect target malignant tissues from less than 2 cm in size. Peripheral target tissues smaller than 2 cm have been historically difficult to detect.
The localized needle can intercept target tissues within the airway as well as sub-surface tissues beyond the wall of the airway. By displaying the preferred entry site and trajectory view of the percutaneous needle, the physician is granted access to easy-to-understand localization information.
The needle is designed with patient tracking devices which each have a marker and a localization element. The markers are visible in the imaging captured by the SPiN system while the position and orientation (POSE) of localization elements are tracked by the localization device in the imaging system. In addition to these tracking components, the needle has a hollow cannula that allows for a switch between bronchoscopy and percutaneous approaches. This range of offerings provides precision guidance for marker and dye placement, allowing for improved diagnostic accuracy with reduced irritation to the lungs and airway.
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