U.S. Markets for Image-Guided Surgery Products

For the purposes of this report, the term “image-guided surgery” (IGS) refers to any surgical procedure involving the visualization of the patient’s anatomy using imaging instruments such as endoscopes, internal video cameras, and ultrasound guides. Intraoperative images provide the surgeon with real-time visualization of targeted tissues and structures, and allow for physical alteration with surgical tools and instruments.

Factors driving the development and adoption of various IGS technologies include:

• compatibility with less invasive surgical approaches designed to improve clinical utility and cost effectiveness, improve long-term patient outcomes, minimize surgical trauma, and reduce hospital lengths of stay and recovery times;
• enhanced ability to obtain and consistently reproduce intended procedural and therapeutic results;
• improved real-time visualization of the operating field, enabling greater precision in targeted lesion localization, delineation, and desired surgical alteration; and,
• minimized risk of damage to vital tissues and organs adjacent to the targeted site.