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Spine Precision Partnership

Cios Spin and Pulse1 – The integrated solution for the OR

Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform

Cios Spin mobile C-arm and NuVasive Pulse platform

Navigation and excellent intraoperative imaging in spine surgery offer the potential for more surgeons to adopt MIS techniques, while improving implant accuracy and minimizing radiation. However, the complexity of existing solutions and the workflow disruptions they cause have impeded adoption of navigation in the majority of spine surgeries. 

Siemens Healthineers and NuVasive formed the Spine Precision Partnership to create a holistic solution for spine surgery. 

Cios Spin and the Pulse platform now integrate seamlessly, delivering 2D and 3D imaging, navigation technologies, image quality improvement for low dose images, and a wide range of dedicated spine surgery technologies — all available on one easy-to-use platform.

Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin

Cios Spin performs an isocentric 3D scan in 30 seconds

Cios Spin: Mobile 3D imaging for intraoperative quality assurance

Retina 3D: Precise 3D visualization with intraoperative cone beam CT
Retina 3D lets you see fine anatomical structures, implants, screws, and devices. The 3D technology of Cios Spin may also help to avoid revision surgery.

Easy 3D: 3D made quick and easy
With step-by-step guidance, scan times of only 30 seconds, and easy-to-use 3D visualization functions, Cios Spin improves 3D workflow efficiency.

Screw Scout2: Accelerated intraoperative screw assessment
Screw Scout automatically localizes screws in the 3D volume and presents the detected screws in a centered view in three planes. This allows for immediate and accelerated screw assessment.

Navigation in spine surgery with NuVasive Pulse platform

NuVasive Pulse platform

Pulse: An integrated technology platform to enable better spine surgery

Precision through 3D imaging and navigation
Pulse introduces a procedurally integrated navigation technology that features workflow technologies to improve ease-of-use and surgical efficiency in the OR.

Smart imaging with radiation reduction
Lessray technology was designed to increase OR efficiency through streamlined imaging workflow, while at the same time to improve the quality (clarity, contrast, noise level, and usability3) of a noisy (low‐quality) image. Lessray significantly reduces the graininess of low radiation dose images and allows for greater utility of low dose imaging, which minimizes the dose exposure for everyone in the room.4

Multiple technologies in one platform
Besides navigation and Lessray, Pulse integrates multiple enabling technologies to improve workflow in the OR, including neuromonitoring, Integrated Global Alignment, and Bendini.

The information shown herein refers to a product of 3rd party manufacturer NuVasive, Inc. and thus are in their regulatory responsibility. Please contact the 3rd party manufacturer for further information and availability.

Cios Spin and Pulse - The integrated solution for the OR

Cios Spin enables automated 2D and 3D image transfer to the Pulse platform and the use of its technologies.

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Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform offering 3D cone beam CT scans

3D cone beam CT scan for navigation displayed on the Cios Spin monitor and Pulse

Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform offering 3D cone beam CT scans
Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform offering 2D image transfer
Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform offering 2D stitching and labeling
Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform offering C-arm tracking
Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform offering image enhancement
Navigation in spine surgery with mobile C-arm machine Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse platform offering linked user interfaces
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“Using both systems connected to each other, we have so many features dedicated to spine surgery, which provides more effective and meaningful delivery of information in the OR with a small equipment footprint within the sterile field.”

<p>Jacques D. Müller-Broich, MD</p>

Jacques D. Müller-Broich, MD

University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany

Customer testimonial

Click here to watch Jacques D. Müller-Broich, MD, from University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, talk about his experiences with Cios Spin and NuVasive Pulse in spine surgery navigation.

The statements by Siemens Healthineers’ customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer's unique setting. Because there is no “typical” hospital or laboratory and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, samples mix, case mix, level of IT and/or automation adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.

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The information shown herein refers to a product of 3rd party manufacturer NuVasive, Inc. and thus are in their regulatory responsibility. Please contact the 3rd party manufacturer for further information and availability.

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As evaluated by a human observer in a side by side visual comparison of 30 image pairs with and without Lessray processing.

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In clinical practice, the amount of image quality improvement achieved when a Pulsed and/or Low Dose image is processed with Lessray is dependent on the clinical task, patient size, anatomical location, and clinical practice. The dose should be set at a level to which the physician is able to achieve the adequate image quality needed for the particular clinical task. A consultation with a radiologist and a physicist may aid in determining the appropriate dose.