Panorama Cystoscopy to Patients

An application example for the panorama endoscopy is the endoscopic examination of the bladder by the use of a rigid or flexible cystoscope. During the examination, the “Endorama®“ system fuses the acquired endoscopic images from the bladder to a panoramic image. This panorama is displayed for the physician in real time on a screen. “Endorama^®“ thus allows an easy and clear image documentation of the clinical findings in the bladder in relation to relevant structures such as the ostia or the bladder neck.

Conspicuous structures or areas after surgeries can be labelled interactively and can thus be reliable relocated during a later examination. The fast and straightforward generation of the image panoramas in high quality can thus enhance the documentation of the examination as well as the data exchange with external physicians.

“Endorama^®“ has not yet been certified as a medical product. Fraunhofer IIS presents this functional prototype with the aim of engaging partners for further development as well as for production and marketing.

• Ralf Hackner, Rodrigo Suarez-Ibarrola, Tian Qiu , Niels Lemke , Philipp-Fabian Pohlmann, Konrad Wilhelm , Peer Fischer, Arkadiusz Miernik, Thomas Wittenberg: Panoramic Imaging Assessment of Different Bladder Phantoms - An Evaluation Study. Urology, Oct. 2021,DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2021.05.036
  
• Kriegmair, M., Wittenberg, T., Ritter, M., Michel, M.-S., Bolenz, C., Bergen, T.: Generating panoramic images of the urinary bladder for the digital documentation of cystoscopy findings using Endorama^®: Development and first clinical experience. Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2016, Page e31.
  
• Kriegmair, M., Bergen, T., Wittenberg, T., Michel, M., Bolenz, C.: Panoramazystoskopie zur digi­talen Dokumen­tation von Harnblasenbefunden: Entwicklung und erste klinische Anwendung. Ta­gungs­band Dt. Urologie Kongress, September 27-29, 2015.