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Scopis GmbH

High-precision Measuring and Navigation Systems for Minimally-invasive Surgery

Minimally-invasive surgery methods revolutionized medical care. Even for complicated operations, only a few little incisions are necessary today. This minimizes complications and considerably shortens the healing process for the patient. With the development of laser-based endoscopic and microscopic measuring and navigation systems, Scopis GmbH significantly optimized minimally-invasive surgery. Innovative 3D measurement enables a reproducible execution of surgical procedures for the first time. This helps minimize clinical complications and, thus, optimize costs. Scopis GmbH is a spin-off of the Berliner Zentrum für Mechatronische Medizintechnik, a joint institute of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Fraunhofer Venture supported the preparations for the start-up.

Better results even in complicated cases
The Scopis GmbH product range includes measuring and navigation systems as well as add-on software. The systems help the user to shorten surgery time, reduce clinical complications, achieve better post-surgical results and, thus, minimize costs. Furthermore, Scopis also offers a wide range of navigated instruments allowing the measuring and navigation systems to be implemented even in complicated cases – for example if anatomical landmarks are missing due to previous surgery.