IMRIS, Stryker Working to Combine Efforts to Offer Auto-Registration With Surgical Navigation

IMRIS

and Stryker Corporation

today announced a non-exclusive collaboration between Stryker's automatic image registration for spinal and cranial navigated procedures and VISIUS® iCT and VISIUS iMRI surgical suites from IMRIS. "Having these tools work together is an exciting opportunity for surgeons utilizing intraoperative CT and MRI in our VISIUS® Surgical Theatres. This open platform collaboration aligns squarely with our goal of providing state-of-the-art imaging at the point of therapy," said Jay D. Miller, IMRIS President and CEO. IMRIS markets the VISIUS Surgical Theatre with intraoperative CT and MRI options to provide surgical teams with on-demand access to state-of-the-art, diagnostic quality imaging. The IMRIS solution makes these valuable images possible at key points in the surgery with patented technology that brings the scanner into the OR rather than requiring the surgeon to bring the patient to the scanner. "We are excited to partner with IMRIS to bring streamlined surgical solutions into integrated CT and MRI capable operating rooms. IMRIS shares our open platform philosophy and we believe that through this partnership we will improve the