This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $294,992 to Illuminant Surgical Inc. to develop and test a deformable registration pipeline for the company's PRISM surgical navigation tool. PRISM is a camera-projector system that provides intuitive, low-cost, and markerless surgical guidance by aligning a patient's preoperative imaging with their intraoperative anatomy.
The primary objectives are to: 1) develop deformable registration software that can account for changes in skin surface topology between pre-op and intraop, thereby improving PRISM's ability to accurately overlay digital anatomical models; and 2) conduct cadaveric testing to validate the deformable registration pipeline. This award will support the initial software development and pilot cadaveric testing, serving as a precursor to future studies and FDA clearance. If successful, PRISM would become the first surgical navigation device of its kind to achieve these advanced registration capabilities.
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