St. Tammany Health System is offering Body Vision Medical's C-Arm Based Tomography (CABT) that produces intraoperative CT imaging for earlier more accurate lung cancer diagnosis.
“We are excited to bring this highly advanced diagnostic technology close to home for our patients,” said STHS Pulmonologist Ricardo Blanco, MD. “It enables us to visualize and pursue lesions such as ground glass opacities and other challenging lesions that without this technology are some of the hardest cancers to diagnose.”
Body Vision’s CABT produces real-time intraoperative imaging so that pulmonologists can see the actual lung lesion and its location during a diagnostic bronchoscopy procedure, enabling them to biopsy from smaller, more difficult-to-access lung lesions at an earlier stage. This image-guided biopsy dramatically increases the likelihood of an early, definitive diagnosis for potential lung cancer patients and improves the probability of timely treatment and patient survival.
Pulmonologists are challenged to obtain diagnostic tissue from suspicious lung lesions due to the fact that they cannot see the lesion and its location during biopsy. Body Vision’s CABT imaging allows pulmonologists to see the actual lesion and lesion location intraoperatively in real-time so that they can precisely navigate to the lung lesion and visually confirm that they are indeed taking tissue samples from within the lesion during biopsy. There is no other technology readily accessible to pulmonologists that enables this kind of image-guided biopsy that has been clinically proven to maximize the likelihood of obtaining a conclusive diagnosis.