CORTEXPLORER is the heart of our navigation technology and enables you to plan, simulate and perform surgeries.
Our software platform creates precise “digital twins” of a surgical subject from radiological imaging data, such as CT, MRI or fMRI. Skin, bone and brain layers help to plan procedures accurately and within minutes. Our HoloDeck projects the virtual anatomical layers onto your desk to observe and adapt the surgical plan at real-life scale and in 3D.
Place virtual implants — recording chambers, electrode arrays, cannulas — directly on the digital twin and rotate them around the trajectory axis to align with sulci or vessels you want to avoid. Export the implant together with the skull as STL files into your CAD or 3D-modelling tool of choice to manufacture a subject-specific part, or 3D-print it for a fit-check before surgery.
Load standard brain atlases such as D99 for rhesus macaques and align them to your subject in a few interactions. Once registered, trajectories can be planned in atlas coordinate frames — pick a target structure and CORTEXPLORER projects the entry and target points back onto the subject's own anatomy.
The CORTEXPLORER system enables you to train and simulate complex procedures in realistic training scenarios. From our software platform, 3D-prints of a subject can be ordered or built in your own lab with no effort. New users can train tool handling, while experienced users can simulate more technical aspects of tomorrow’s surgery.
In surgery, CORTEXPLORER supports you in navigating and targeting the brain in invasive or non-invasive procedures. Multiple high-resolution cameras monitor the instruments relative to the subject’s anatomy and the surgical plan, guiding users at all stages of a procedure. Typical applications are the insertion of single and multi-electrodes, injections and the navigation of stimulation coils.
The Bullseye view collapses your tool and trajectory into a single concentric target. Angular and lateral errors read out as the offset of the dot from the center, and a side gauge shows the distance from entry to target point. Sub-millimeter alignment becomes a matter of seeing the dot in the middle, not reading coordinates.
Our innovative HoloDeck interface lets you see both the real subject and, virtually overlaid, its inner anatomical structure. Investigate and adapt every detail of your surgical plan and see the effects instantly as a holographic projection. A unique data-processing pipeline guarantees highest precision at lowest latencies, for a natural user experience. HoloDeck also enables sterile interaction with your navigation system through gestures and voice commands.
CORTEXPLORER is licensed per module. Combine Planning, Navigation and the HoloDeck App to match the workflow of your lab or operating room.
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Rehearse tomorrow's procedure on a 3D-printed phantom of your subject, complete with matching MRI and CT volumes for planning and navigation practice.
