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One Tower, 5 Ways to
Enhance Video Images
Stryker's 1588 AIM (Advanced
Imaging Modalities) Platform
offers 5 visualization modes to
upgrade minimally invasive
views:
• ENV (Endoscopic Near-
Infrared Visualization).
Contrast-dye-aided fluorescence
imaging that allows surgeons to
visually assess blood flow, tis-
sue perfusion and the locations
of biliary ducts.
• IRIS (infrared
Illumination System).
Increasing the visibility of the ureters can help to reduce the risk of damaging them. A lighted
stent integrated into the system's light source illuminates the ureters without generating heat.
• Clarity employs image-processing algorithms to eliminate visual "noise," sharpen image
details and intensify color contrast when surgical smoke, fog, moisture or debris degrade the
view.
• DRE (Dynamic Range Enhancement). When the darkness of posterior compartments in
the abdomen, joints or other small cavities impairs visual quality, the DRE mode creates a
brighter image.
• Desaturation mode allows surgeons to incrementally adjust an image's color saturation —
specifically the saturation of reds — to their preference in order to respond intraoperatively and
immediately to the need to see through an influx of blood or beyond inflammation.
— David Bernard
Stryker | 1588 AIM Platform
• AIM IN ACTION Clockwise from
top left: the ENV, IRIS, DRE,
Desaturation and Clarity modes of
Stryker's 1588 AIM Platform.
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