Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc. announced that HonorHealth, a leading healthcare system serving more than five million people in the greater Phoenix and Scottsdale areas, is the first in Arizona to deploy the Company’s S- Series OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) technology to visualize tissue margins in the operating room.
“Having the most advanced technologies in the operating room to assist my decision-making in real-time is incredibly valuable,” said Dr. Sommer Gunia, a breast surgical oncologist with HonorHealth. “OCT imaging technology allows me to see at a depth and resolution that was previously impossible in the OR, and it has become an important tool that helps me achieve the best possible outcomes for my patients.”
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Traditional technologies such as X-ray, ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) don’t have the resolution to see disease at the cellular level. As a result, surgeons must wait up to 10 days for pathology results to either confirm clean margins or show positive margins, which often result in patients returning for another procedure. The resolution of the S-Series OCT is optimized down to 2 mm for identifying regions of interest in tissue microstructures and features such as blood vessels, ducts and glands, making it ideal for visualizing surgical margins and helping surgeons to make the best surgical decisions for their patients. It uses light to create cross-sectional 3D images of tissue microstructures at 10 times the resolution of ultrasound and X-ray and 100 times the resolution of MRI. The S-Series OCT was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2021 for general tissue imaging.
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“HonorHealth’s adoption of the S-Series OCT continues our nationwide commercial expansion and increases patient access to the technology in one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the Southwest,” said Perimeter CEO Adrian Mendes. “The ongoing adoption of our S-Series OCT reflects both the need for enhanced margin visualization in the operating room and confidence in our technology to improve patient outcomes. We are thrilled to partner with HonorHealth.”
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Source – PR Newswire
