Philips’ Zenition Mobile C-Arm System Integrates Cydar EV Map Software for Endovascular Procedures

January 18, 2022—Royal Philips announced the availability of new three-dimensional (3D) image guidance capabilities through its Zenition image-guided therapy mobile C-arm system for use in endovascular procedures. The company has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Cydar, a United Kingdom–based provider of cloud-based procedure maps software to plan and guide surgery in real time.

According to Philips, the Zenition system addresses the need for patient-specific, real-time procedure planning and guidance, optimization of equipment utilization, and usability. The Zenition system brings together innovations in image capture and processing, ease-of-use, and versatility, many of which were introduced on the company’s Azurion platform.

Philips stated that integrating the Cydar EV Maps software into the Zenition platform adds extended procedure planning and real-time 3D guidance capabilities. Cydar EV Maps assists in the planning, real-time guidance, and postprocedure review of endovascular surgery.

With Cydar EV Maps’ cloud-based artificial intelligence and computer vision, physicians can create a detailed, patient-specific 3D map of the target vasculature to help plan surgery. The software then uses these maps to augment intraoperative live image guidance, updating the maps in real time to account for deformations during surgery, such as guidewires and instruments deforming the patient’s blood vessels, noted the Philips press release.

Cydar EV Maps is currently in use across the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It is a certified Software-as-a-Medical Device with CE Mark approval and FDA 510(k) clearance, advised Philips.