New medical handheld camera delivery

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Quest Innovations B.V. has revealed its latest development in the multispectral imaging market. For ArteMIS Molecular Imaging, Quest has delivered a complete handheld dual–band near infrared fluorescence imaging system for cancer surgery: a multispectral camera that has fully integrated lighting and camera control functions, and includes an image analysis application based on Architector Vision Suite that is completely tailored to the customer’s requirements and look and feel.

With this camera system the surgeon can visualize fluorescence proteins that attach to tumor cells. This information that is present in the near infrared image is overlaid on a color image in real-time to create a fused image. The system is designed for fluorescence proteins ICG and CW800, but can be adapted for other fluorescence proteins by changing optical coatings and filters. Furthermore a combination of proteins is possible, allowing a complete new way of visualization for the surgeon.

“We are pleased to deliver this exciting new technology to our customers!”, said Richard Meester CEO of Quest Innovations. “This technology is really important for the new procedures and technology advances in cancer surgery, providing surgeons with clear real-time information about tumors. This improves a surgeon’s decision making process, and so is capable of saving lives. “

Quest has developed the handheld device for the customer according to the medical device directive. “This product shows the capabilities of Quest Innovations to create complete customer OEM products based on our multispectral camera platform and software technology, as well as the potential of multispectral imaging technology,” Richard Meester said. “The investments we have done over the past years now come to life in all kinds of new products in various applications, from medicine to industry. Over the next 6 to 12 months we will be releasing more OEM products that are currently under development that will show the added value of multi-spectral imaging, especially in medical applications.”

The handheld camera is controlled by the surgeon using the buttons on the camera itself or from the software application. The buttons on the camera allow the surgeon to select exposure times, as well as increasing or decreasing the external laser light source. The camera is connected with a fiber optical link to a media center for storing a complete recording of the surgery to a local hard disk for offline review. Certain patient information is stored with the recording for tracking purposes.