Gustavo Oderich (Houston, USA) speaks to Vascular News about non-radiation-based imaging, highlighting various technologies that he says have the potential to change the game.
“We definitely need to [move] away from radiation,” the newly appointed professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine begins, underscoring the fact that radiation’s “deleterious effects” to both patients and physicians are well known.
Oderich notes that, for two recent advances in the field—namely Philips’ Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology and Centerline Biomedical’s intraoperative positioning system (IOPS)—“the future is promising,” despite there still being a long way to go in their development.
He remarks: “I really think that, a few years from now, when we do a complex case, we’re not going to be using only radiation and at some point, I think we’re going to be using very little or maybe no radiation.”
Oderich also touches on the use of non-radiation imaging with augmented reality, which he states, “allows you to literally walk inside the aorta”.
“Watch out,” he says. “This is something that is going to be part of our future.”
