Marcus Pfister improves Navi for the OR
Inventors, discoverers, people who have achieved a great, special thing for the first time – they have been fascinating Marcus Pfister since he was a child. A photograph he holds in his hands shows him at the age of five or six: A boy in a striped sweater kneels at a dining table, his eyes shining. The boy bites his lower lip with joyful excitement, his hands hovering over a structure made of Lego bricks that has obviously challenged him and is now finished. A crane with a winch that works just as the boy imagined.
Close cooperation with physicians was the beginning
For us, this means: better orientation and significantly less contrast medium.
Martin Austermann, head of vascular surgery at St. Franziskus Hospital in Münster, Germany
Marcus Pfister visits a production team assembling an ARTIS icono in Forchheim, Germany.
Specific road maps give physicians orientation
Deformations of the vascular systems that occur during surgery can now be displayed directly in the image. It's like making the leap from a good navigation system to a real-time augmented point to point routing.
Marcus Pfister, Principal Key Expert at Healthineers, Advanced Therapies Innovation, Forchheim, Germany
