Pioneering New 3D Guidance for Aortic Surgery: Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) Technology
Surgeons at Penn Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy are now using Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS), a recently FDA-approved alternative guidance system, for minimally invasive endovascular aortic surgery. FORS is a unique advance in that it permits real-time, high-fidelity 3D intraoperative visualization of devices (e.g., catheters and wires) inside the body in the near absence of radiation.
“FORS is a significant advance not only for the reduction in radiation risk, but because we’re now able to visualize catheters and wires in three dimensions using multiple different projections simultaneously—head-to-toe views, for example—that were previously impossible,” says Darren B. Schneider, MD, chief of Penn Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy.
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