The document outlines the enhanced features of Brainlab's cranial navigation system, version 3.0, which includes improved user interfaces and automated workflows for better tracking and visualization during neurosurgical procedures. Key advancements are highlighted, such as time-saving patient registration techniques, high-precision targeting with the Varioguide instrument holder, and real-time integration of ultrasound images with pre-operative data for effective resection control. Overall, these innovations aim to streamline surgical processes and enhance precision during operations.

1. Further reduced user interface and automated workflows
Improved tracking robustness
Virtual bone flap removal with 3D Craniotomy Planning* view
Motorized microscope alignment to trajectories
Improved visualization of objects in microscope Head Up Display
Digital BK Medical ultrasound integration* with full-resolution transmission of images
VarioGuide assembly video for easy setup
SIMPLICITY IN
NEURONAVIGATION
Brainlab Cranial Navigation. Efficiently combining decisive
aspects of neurosurgery.
Brainlab®
Cranial 3.0 provides a new user experience on Kick®
and Curve™
navigation platforms. Fully
DICOM-based, cranial navigation and Brainlab Elements* can run parallel with instant synchronization
to update navigated image sets with new fusion results, SmartBrush®
objects or trajectories.
NEW AND IMPROVED FEATURES IN CRANIAL 3.0

2. TIME-SAVING REGISTRATION*
Regardless of patient positioning, Brainlab Cranial offers
multiple techniques for referencing patients to the system.
Surface matching with touch-based pointer Softouch®
or
touchless laser pointer Z-touch®
makes patient registration
quick and easy. As both devices register CT and MR images
without headsets or markers, registration scans can be
avoided, helping to reduce navigation costs.
HIGH-PRECISION ALIGNMENT*
Surgeons can target pre-planned trajectories in less than a
minute with VarioGuide™
. As a universal instrument holder,
VarioGuide offers continuous position feedback and precise
step-by-step workflow guidance, for a variety of procedures.
Surgeons are able to take biopsies, place shunts or guide an
endoscope with increased confidence.
MICROSCOPE INTEGRATION*
Brainlab Cranial supports all major neurosurgery microscopes.
Passive markers attached to the microscope enable positional
tracking and Head Up Display (HUD) of objects. This allows for
ergonomic position orientation as well as autofocus on the
navigated tool. Motorized features include point and trajectory
alignment.
INTRAOPERATIVE ULTRASOUND*
Brainlab ultrasound integration features live anatomical
images overlaid directly onto pre-operative data offering
surgeons real-time resection control and brain shift
compensation. The open-platform technology offers a
multitude of choices integrating various ultrasound probes
from multiple vendors.
Touchless registration with Z-touch
Microscope integration
Selection of integrated ultrasound probes
VarioGuide instrument holder
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*Optional