EOS imaging announced a new partnership with Spinologics to develop a biomechanical simulation software dedicated to spine surgery planning that will be integrated into EOS imaging's cloud-based, 3D planning software. The co-development will allow surgeons to plan treatment from EOS 3D dataset taking into account the patient's stiffness and physiological parameters. The biomechanical model of the spine and the pelvis provides input to define a planned correction taking into account the spine stiffness, while predicting if there could be a risk of failure along the course of treatment.

It will bring particular value to the correction of elderly patient deformity and degenerative spine conditions for which spine flexibility is diminished. The approach also applies to paediatric surgery. The joint development effort will utilize patient-specific 3D datasets from EOS exams to simulate in-situ bending, vertebral de-rotation, contraction-distraction as well as gravitational effects.

The new capability should allow surgeons to better understand and anticipate the effects of forces on the spine while planning initial and revision surgeries. EOS imaging will have the exclusive rights to sell the new software worldwide with an anticipated release date of the first product by mid-2017.