Siemens Healthineers is highlighting technology that increases early lung cancer diagnoses at the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) being held in Barcelona, Spain.
The technology was developed in collaboration with Intuitive Imaging Informatics and combines Ion robotic bronchoscopy with Cios Spin, a mobile C-arm that uses conebeam CT (CBCT) to generate three-dimensional CT-like images, the company said.
It is being used at the University Hospital of Zurich in Switzerland and has led to a 291% increase in stage 1A lung cancer diagnoses, as well as a 69% increase in overall diagnoses of the disease and a diagnostic performance rate of 89%, according to Siemens.