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Matthias Peterhans
CAScination AG

Founded in 2009, CAScination has become the European market leader in Computer Aided Liver Surgery.

It’s surgical navigation system – CAS-One – work similarly to a GPS-based car navigation system: The device displays a map (of the patient) and guides the user to a desired target location (treatment area). This guidance information is displayed in a 3D augmented reality scene and allows for highly precise treatment of tumors.

Navigated surgery enables potentially curative surgical treatments on patients, which could not be operated before (life expectation without treatment of liver cancer is < 1 year). The CAS-One liver navigation system by CAScination has shown usability several clinical studies, is available as CE-certified medical device. By 2012 over 120 patients have been treated with CAScination’s technology and systems are installed in 7 European Hospitals.

Based on the core technology for open liver surgery, the company is currently expanding its activities to key-hole surgery and interventional treatments (product launch in Oct 2012).