EOS Now Offers Online Service for Outsourcing 3-D Modeling

Paris, France-based EOS Imaging, which makes 2-D and 3-D orthopedic imaging systems, has launched a new online service offering that allows hospitals to outsource 3-D modeling from EOS stereo-radiographic images. The 3-D models will be generated at EOS’ Canadian subsidiary in Montreal. These capabilities will be available to healthcare professionals with access to EOS images worldwide.

The 3-D models and associated, automatically computed clinical data will be available for spine, hip and knee for aid in therapeutic decision, surgery planning and control. Named EOS 3D Service, the new offering will also provide 3-D modeling of the ribcage for research purposes as well as for the design of scoliosis braces.

EOS has already begun to offer this new service and a first agreement has been signed with the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation (SSSF), a not-for-profit foundation that supports the Harms Study Group in understanding and developing treatments of spinal deformities in children and adolescents. The Harms Study Group (HSG), formed in 1995, is an international collaborative cohort of surgeons who perform comprehensive, multi-center research studies and share the results to advance the techniques of spinal deformity correction. EOS 3D Service to SSSF allows the Harms Study Group surgeons access to 3-D data for their patients undergoing scoliosis surgery.

“EOS’ modeling capabilities fit seamlessly into our strategic plan to research and identify new spinal deformity treatment techniques and we couldn’t be more pleased to partner with the company as the first users of the EOS 3D Service” said Michelle Marks, executive director of the SSSF.

Marie Meynadier, CEO of EOS imaging, said, “EOS 3D Service affords surgeons and bracing professionals currently without direct access to our sterEOS workstation to benefit from the powerhouse of our patient 3D models and data. We are happy to extend this service to all of our customers and to their referrals, adding further value to the suite of software and tools based on the EOS platform.”

The EOS system provides full-body stereo-radiographic images of patients in functional positions, in both 2-D and 3-D, as well as related software solutions. EOS exams require a radiation dose 50 percent to 85 percent less than digital radiology and 95 percent less than basic CT (computed tomography) scans. The new EOS Micro Dose option, recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, allows a further drastic step towards the ALARA principle (as low as reasonably achievable) by bringing pediatric spine follow up exams at a dose level equivalent to a week of natural background radiation on Earth.