Navigation

Improve visualization and increase diagnostic options by combining ultrasound imaging with MRI technology.

Sentinelle Medical’s Navigation offers a multi-modality approach to interactive image viewing and device guidance. Navigation simultaneously displays views of real-time ultrasound images alongside corresponding images from a previously acquired 3D DICOM dataset (e.g. MRI). Combining modalities yields more dependable results, in less time.

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• Multi-modality technology is particularly useful for locating regions that are well visualized using MRI but difficult to locate with ultrasound.
• Various modalities are supported: combine real-time ultrasound imaging with any previously acquired 3D DICOM dataset (MRI, CT, PET, or 3D ultrasound).
• Navigation’s interactive targeting guide provides feedback to the operator, describing required movement of the ultrasound transducer to locate any user selected target that can be seen in an MRI dataset.

Platform Independent Navigation

• Combine Sentinelle’s Navigation solution with existing ultrasound machines. Our technology is compatible with most commercially available ultrasound systems.
• Unlike most commercial alternatives, the Sentinelle Navigation solution supports both optical and magnetic tracking systems.

1. Aegis Navigation software displaying MR guidance
2. Ultrasound display
3. Tracked ultrasound transducer
4. Magnetic field transmitter
5. Optical camera

Optimizing Image Quality and Workflow

• Confirm diagnosis with precise spatial correlation of MR and ultrasound images in real-time.
• Decrease the time required to locate small and poorly visualized regions using ultrasound. Increase confidence while increasing throughput.
• Real-time 3D rendering of the tissue helps to orient the user relative to the relevant anatomy.
• Respiratory motion correction dynamically minimizes misalignment between MRI and ultrasound images as the patient breathes, allowing accurate, continuous imaging.
• Navigation software built on Sentinelle’s Aegis 3D advanced imaging platform leverages powerful image processing functionality.
• Compatible with all other Aegis plug-ins enabling features such as registration of reconstructions (e.g. DCE colour maps) to real-time ultrasound images.

Breast Navigation Solution

• Unique multi-modality imaging hardware and software is specifically designed to overcome the difficulties of immobilizing and registering breast tissue.
• Full ultrasound and interventional access permits patient repositioning between MRI and ultrasound imaging.
• This exclusive system requires a Sentinelle Vanguard Breast MRI coil system, compatible with Sentinelle Vanguard for GE, Siemens, and Toshiba.