NeuroLogica and Stryker Partner for a New Medical Imaging Product

NeuroLogica Crop. and Stryker Corp. have collaborated on a new integrated surgical navigation unit for NeuroLogica’s portable BodyTom 32-slice computed tomography (CT) scanners.

The goal of the pairing of these two products is to provide surgeons with better orientation in operating rooms, and to offer better precision in minimally invasive surgeries. The BodyTom and the new surgical navigation system platform are designed to help improve various medical procedures in spine, trauma, neurosurgery and ENT (ear-nose-throat), among others.

Stryker’s neurological navigation platform comes with the company’s Automatic Intraoperative Mask technology, which is the first surgical navigation system to offer automatic patient registration capability with NeuroLogica’s BodyTom, the company claims.

NeuroLogica received CE Mark approval for the BodyTom last month. The CT scanner is portable, similar to the commonly used rolling chest X-ray machines. Its portability makes CT scans more accessible to patients in any section of a hospital.

NeuroLogica, based in Boston, Mass., was founded in 2004. The company develops medical imaging technologies.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker Corp. develops medical technologies for the reconstructive, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology and spine markets.