Orbeye (surgical microscope)

2017: Announcement

In September, 2017 the company Sony Olympus Medical Solutions (SOMED) formed by corporations Sony and Olympus in 2013 announced an exit of a digital surgical microscope of Orbeye with support 4K-and 3D - technologies which will help to make less tiresome work of surgeons, Japan Times reports.^[1]

The Orbeye system allows to bring the enlarged image of an operational field in a format of high definition (4K) to the 55-inch LCD monitor. Doctors can see the three-dimensional picture thanks to lungs 3D - to points. As the producer says, display of the course of transactions on the large-format display will allow to reduce fatigue of surgeons and will save from need to look long in a microscope eyepiece.

Surgical microscope of Orbeye

Microsurgeries are integrated to accomplishment of technically difficult tasks. When using the traditional systems doctors should stay long in unnatural provision therefore from surgeons it is quite often possible to hear complaints to neck injuries — the senior managing director of Olympus Akihiro Taguchi noted, speaking at a press conference in Tokyo on the occasion of the innovation presentation.

Also many doctors complain of fatigue of eyes after such transactions which duration occasionally reaches 10 hours.

The new, hi-tech Orbeye system with more compact and easy microscope equipped 3D and 4K-sensors of the image with the big monitor and a possibility of a video, is designed to solve these problems.

The device will go on sale in Japan and the USA since October, 2017 at the price about 40 million yens ($360 thousand). Further the producer plans entry and into other markets.^[2]

SOMED expects to strengthen using similar products positions in the world market of digital microscopes and to increase the share on it to 20% by 2021, from present 1-2%. On this direction the German producers Carl Zeiss and Leica controlling more than 90% of the market are considered as leaders today.

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