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Stereotaxis' Magnetic Navigation System has been designed to enhance patient care with the following potential advantages:
- More precise control of diagnostic and therapeutic devices
- Reduction in x-ray exposure to physicians and staff
- Soft and consistent tissue contact using GentleTouch™ technology
- Efficient and successful procedures due to computer control and digital automation
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The system utilizes two permanent magnets mounted on articulating or pivoting arms that are enclosed within a stationary housing, with one magnet on either side of the patient table, inside the cath lab.
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These magnets generate magnetic navigation fields that are less than 10% of the strength of fields typically generated by MRI equipment and therefore require significantly less shielding, and cause significantly less interference, than MRI equipment. Over 20 years of experience with MRI magnetic fields has proven magnetic technology to be safe for patients.
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Because the working tip of the disposable interventional device is directly controlled by these external magnetic fields, the physician has the same degree of control regardless of the number or type of turns, or the distance traveled, by the working tip to arrive at its position in the blood vessels or chambers of the heart, which results in highly precise digital control of the working tip of the disposable interventional device.
Our proprietary Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System provides the physician with remote instrument control through user friendly “point and click” and/or joystick-operated technology, which can be operated either from beside the patient table, as in traditional interventional procedures, or from a room adjacent to the patient but outside the x-ray fluoroscopy field.  The Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System navigates disposable interventional devices to the treatment site through complex paths in the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to carry out treatment using computer controlled, externally applied magnetic fields to directly govern the motion of the working tip of these devices, each of which has a magnetically sensitive tip that predictably responds to magnetic fields generated by our system.
Stereotaxis’ unique proprietary products include:
- Stereotaxis NIOBE® Magnetic Navigation System
- NAVIGANT™ Software User Interface
- Magnetic GentleTouch™ Catheters
- Magnetic Coronary Guidewires
- CARDIODRIVE™ Catheter Advancement System
Through our alliances with Siemens, Philips and Biosense Webster, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, this precise digital instrument control has been integrated with the imaging and information systems used during interventional cardiology and electrophysiology procedures in order to provide the physician with a fully-integrated and automated information and instrument control system. We have integrated our Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System with Siemens’ and Philips’ digital x-ray fluoroscopy systems to provide advanced imaging. In addition, we have integrated the Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System with Biosense Webster’s 3D catheter location sensing technology, to provide accurate real-time information as to the three dimensional location of the working tip of the instrument, and with Biosense Webster’s ablation catheter technology.
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