The Evolutional History of Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy: State of the Art

Atul C Mehta; Kristin L Hood; Yehuda Schwarz; Stephen B Solomon

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2018.04.029

The Evolutional History of Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy: State of the Art

Chest. 2018 Oct;154(4):935-947. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.04.029. Epub 2018 Apr 30.

Authors

Atul C Mehta¹, Kristin L Hood², Yehuda Schwarz³, Stephen B Solomon⁴

Affiliations

¹ The Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. Electronic address: MEHTAA1@ccf.org.
² Medical Affairs, Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN.
³ Pulmonary Institute Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.

PMID: 29723514
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.04.029

Abstract

Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) has come a long way from the early roots of electromagnetic theory. Current ENB devices have the potential to change the way lung cancer is detected and treated. This paper provides an overview of the history, current state, and future of ENB.

Keywords: SPiN thoracic navigation system; biopsy; electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy; localization; lung cancer; superDimension navigation system.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Bronchoscopy / instrumentation
Bronchoscopy / trends*
Electromagnetic Phenomena*
Equipment Design / trends
Humans
Inventions / trends
Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
Lung Neoplasms / therapy*
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Research Design / trends