Heading to MD&M Midwest in Minneapolis? Come find us at Booth #2946. If you're developing a device for spine, Vascular, peripheral or oncology procedures, you already know how far a benchtop fixture is from a real patient. That gap is exactly where we work. At SurgeonsLab, we build simulation models that look, feel and behave like real anatomy. That means tissue with realistic feel, vessels with physiological flow, and anatomy that responds the way your device will meet it in the clinic. Device teams work with us across the whole product lifecycle: • R&D and early design iteration • Bench testing and design verification • Human factors and usability studies • Physician training and procedural education • Sales enablement and live demos that actually show your device in action Whether you're working on a Class I instrument or a Class III implant, we can build around your device, your procedure and your target anatomy, including patient-specific models from imaging data. At the booth you'll get hands-on time with: Surgical Spine Model Vascular & Tumor Model Reusable Embolic Demonstrator (RED) CathTrain VR endovascular simulator Endovascular flow models with Circle of Willis aneurysms What we'd most like to hear about is the procedure you're struggling to test, teach or demo. Bring it to us and let's talk about building it. Flying in from the East Coast or elsewhere? Send me a message and we'll set a time to meet so you're not hunting for us on the show floor. Booth #2946, Minneapolis Convention Center October 28–29, 2026 #MDMMidwest #MedTech #MedicalDevices #MedicalSimulation #DeviceDevelopment #InterventionalRadiology #Endovascular #Neurovascular #SpineSurgery #HumanFactors #MedicalAlley #SurgeonsLab

Getting the embolic in is the easy part. The real question is where it goes next. In MMA embolization, "how distal is distal enough?" has become one of the most debated questions in the field. Go deeper and you may cover more of the target territory. Push too hard and you risk reflux back along the catheter, or flow into places you never meant to reach. The tricky part is that a lot of this happens in vessels smaller than a millimeter, where it's hard to see what's actually going on. So we filmed it. This video is live fluoroscopy of a liquid embolic moving through our MMA model, with branches in the sub-millimeter range. You can watch two things happen in real time: 1. How far the embolic penetrates into those small distal branches 2. When reflux starts, and how far it travels back toward the catheter tip Because the anatomy is the same every run, you can change one thing (injection speed, catheter position, the agent itself) and see exactly what that change does. For physicians, that means practicing the feel of a controlled injection before it matters. For device teams, it means comparing how an agent or catheter behaves in a consistent, repeatable anatomy. Watch it, and tell us: what would you test first? #MMAembolization #Neurointervention #Embolization #Endovascular #InterventionalNeuroradiology #MedicalSimulation #MedTech #SurgeonsLab

Evaluating embolic penetration and reflux dynamics requires bridging direct bench-top observation with real-world clinical imaging. The Reusable Embolic Demonstrator (RED) provides a single, flow-enabled platform supporting three distinct visualization modalities: Optical Camera: Real-time, transparent tracking of vessel filling, reflux patterns, and occlusion mechanics. Fluoroscopic: Seamless integration for embolic tracking and workflow evaluation in an angio suite CT road mapping: High-resolution cross-sectional computed tomography imaging for detailed 3D volumetric assessment. Pairing quick-swap pathology modules with multi-modal compatibility gives R&D and clinical teams a cost-controlled setup to validate embolic behavior from benchtop to angio suite. Know more about the Reusable Embolic Demonstrator, visit surgeonslab.com/reusable-emb… You can also drop us an email at [email protected] #Endovascular #Neuroradiology #LiquidEmbolics #SurgeonsLab #MedicalDeviceTesting #Neurointerventions

Evaluating embolic penetration and reflux dynamics requires bridging direct bench-top observation with real-world clinical imaging. The Reusable Embolic Demonstrator (RED) provides a single, flow-enabled platform supporting three distinct visualization modalities: • Optical Camera: Real-time, transparent tracking of vessel filling, reflux patterns, and occlusion mechanics. • Fluoroscopic: Seamless integration for embolic tracking and workflow evaluation in an angio suite • CT road mapping: High-resolution cross-sectional computed tomography imaging for detailed 3D volumetric assessment. Pairing quick-swap pathology modules with multi-modal compatibility gives R&D and clinical teams a cost-controlled setup to validate embolic behavior from benchtop to angio suite. #Endovascular #Neuroradiology #LiquidEmbolics #SurgeonsLab #MedicalDeviceTesting #Neurointerventions

Advancing neurovascular training standards across the Middle East requires simulation infrastructure capable of replicating authentic anatomical friction, microscopic depth, and tactile feedback. SurgeonsLab is pleased to announce the successful installation and operational setup of our SurgTrain surgical platform, endovascular aneurysm models and CathTrain VR at Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 (CCHE 57357)—a premier regional center for pediatric and neuro-oncology care. The installed suite provides CCHE 57357 with a comprehensive physical simulation environment: SurgTrain Surgical Console: Designed for high-fidelity microsurgical clipping practice under microscope visualization, replicating realistic tissue resistance and spatial constraints. Benchtop Endovascular Aneurysm Models: Configured for microcatheter manipulation, coil deployment, and navigating complex vessel tortuosity. Neura-Bubble & Modular Units: Specialized setups engineered for targeted anatomical access and procedural refinement. As healthcare institutions across Saudi Arabia and the broader MENA region continue to elevate clinical simulation infrastructure, establishing patient-specific, reusable dry-run environments is essential for building procedural confidence without intraoperative risk. For neurosurgery and interventional radiology leads in the region: How is your institution incorporating physical simulation suites into resident training and complex case planning? To explore bringing SurgeonsLab neuro-simulation platforms to your hospital or training center in the Middle East, contact our team at [email protected] or visit surgeonslab.com/contactus #Neurosurgery #InterventionalRadiology #Neurovascular #SurgicalSimulation #MedTech #SaudiHealthcare #MENAHealthcare #CCHE57357 #MiddleEastMedTech #SurgeonsLab #SurgTrain #CathTrainVR #ClinicalTraining

Glue or Onyx? Coils or particles? How distal is distal enough? MMA embolization is everywhere in neurointervention right now, and good operators still disagree on how to do it. What nobody disputes is that it's a small, tortuous vessel with very little room for error. So we built a model for it. True-to-scale MMA trunk and branches, validated with DMSO and nBCA, angio-ready, in 2D and 3D, single-use or reusable, with an optional closed-loop perfusion setup. Navigate, coil, glue, inject particles, then do it again. For fellows, for experienced operators trying something new, and for device teams who need consistent anatomy. Want one for your course or lab? Send us a message. #MMAembolization #Neurointervention #Neurosurgery #MedicalSimulation #MedTech #SurgeonsLab

Understanding vascular anatomy on 2D imaging is straightforward. Navigating that anatomy under a surgical microscope is where procedural complexity begins. During the 9th Walter E. Dandy India Neurosurgical Educational Course in Siliguri, the trainees got hands-on experience with complex aneurysm geometries and navigating deep surgical corridors. While pre-operative planning clearly outlined vessel connections, translating that plan to microscopic execution introduced real-world physical constraints: shifted working angles, restricted depth, vessel compliance, and precise clip orientation. This gap between imaging and physical manipulation is why hands-on simulation on our SurgTrain Surgical Simulator is necessary for neurosurgeons and residents to practice patient-specific vessel tortuosity, testing force application, micro-dissection angles, and clip trajectories in a controlled environment. True surgical readiness builds from refining and repeating techniques on the SurgTrain platform until execution is natural. Our sincere thanks to the Walter E. Dandy India Neurosurgical Society, distinguished faculty, and participating trainees for an outstanding educational session. To discuss patient-specific simulator models for your institution, connect with us at [email protected]. You can also connect with us at surgeonslab.com/contactus #SurgeonsLab #WalterEDandy #Neurosurgery #SurgicalSimulation #NeurosurgicalEducation #Microsurgery #SurgicalTraining #MedicalSimulation #Neurovascular #ACOM #ICA #MCA #TumourResection #Neuro #Surgery Walter E. Dandy Neurosurgical Students Club India

September is Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month. A brain aneurysm is a weakened area in a cerebral artery wall that can create a complex clinical and procedural challenge. 1 in 50 individual have an unruptured cerebral aneurysm. When the aneurysm ruptures, the clinical impact is immediate—a critical stroke event carrying a 50% mortality rate. Treatment may involve coiling, stent-assisted coiling, flow diversion, or surgical clipping, depending on the aneurysm and the clinical situation. For neurovascular teams, whether deploying endovascular techniques like coiling, stent-assisted coiling, and flow diversion, or executing microsurgical clipping, navigating complex vessel tortuosity and delicate wall geometries leaves zero margin for error. Operative success relies on device behavior, precise positioning, and thorough anatomical familiarity before making the first access site. This Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month, the focus must extend beyond detection to procedural mastery. Rehearsing complex anatomy and device–anatomy interaction in a controlled environment can support technical training and procedural mastery. At SurgeonsLab, we develop neuro-simulators designed to help teams rehearse, refine challenging neurovascular procedures and validate neurovascular devices faster. This month is an opportunity to raise awareness, support education, and keep advancing preparation for complex cases. Rehearse the anatomy. Refine the technique. Be ready for the procedure. #BrainAneurysmAwarenessMonth #BrainAneurysm #Neurovascular #Neurointervention #MedicalSimulation #EndovascularTraining #SurgeonsLab #MedTech

5,000+ Followers. A small number on a screen, but a meaningful milestone for the SurgeonsLab community. Thank you to the surgeons, interventionalists, educators, biomedical engineers, device professionals, researchers, and MedTech teams who follow our work, challenge our thinking, and engage with what we share. We started SurgeonsLab around a simple idea: realistic simulation should bring anatomy, devices, and procedural technique closer together. That means more than replicating anatomy. It means creating models where complex neurovascular anatomy, tortuosity, bifurcations, access challenges, and device–anatomy interaction can be explored in a controlled and repeatable environment. Whether it is evaluating microcatheter navigation through acute bifurcations, studying embolic delivery in MMA models, or refining access techniques, the objective remains the same: Understand the procedural challenge. Test it repeatedly. Generate meaningful evidence before it reaches the patient. Over the past few years, the conversations with this community have helped shape the questions we ask and the problems we work to solve. 5,000 is not the destination. It is a reminder to keep building, testing, learning, and sharing. Thank you for being part of the journey. — SurgeonsLab #SurgeonsLab #MedicalSimulation #MedTech #SurgicalTraining #EndovascularTraining

Anyone who's pushed a microcatheter through a tortuous vessel knows that knowing the anatomy is only half the job. The other half is knowing how your device will actually behave once it's in there. That's hard to learn from a screen. Your hands need to feel the resistance, the lag in torque, the moment the wire wants to prolapse. So whether you're comparing radial and femoral access or training a new interventionalist on access selection, the bench model has to feel real. That's what we built our platforms at SurgeonsLab to do using our Endovasular flow model with and without hydrophilic coated lumen. With the catheter in the system, teams can focus on: Access site selection. How stable is the sheath? How clean is the entry angle across different access points? Wire and microcatheter behaviour. Torque response, pushability and trackability through tight, winding anatomy. Real-time simulation. Practising navigation and benchmarking devices in a fluid-filled setup before anyone steps into the angio suite. When you can isolate these variables on the bench, you get data you can trust and repeat. That means fewer surprises in the procedure room, and that's better for everyone, especially the patient. Curious how others handle this: how is your team testing microcatheter trackability and access selection right now? #Neurovascular #InterventionalNeuroradiology #Endovascular #MedicalDevices #MedicalSimulation #CatheterNavigation #BenchTesting #MedTech #ClinicalTraining #SurgeonsLab

"Getting close to a 90 degree turn there." That's not a physician. That's a device rep, on camera, first time putting a microwire through our MicroNav™ model. Nobody scripted it. He just narrated what he was feeling as the wire hit the bend. Forty seconds later: "Yeah. So pretty amazing stuff." Here's why that reaction matters more than any spec sheet. A guidewire's real differentiator is invisible in a straight vessel. Torque response, distal trackability, tip shape retention, kink resistance — every wire on the market claims all four, and on a straight silicone channel every wire delivers all four. They look identical. The differences only appear where the anatomy stops cooperating. The branch coming off at a near-right angle. The vessel tapering below a millimetre exactly where the turn is. The point where the wire either follows your torque or straightens out and sends you back to reselect. MicroNav™ is built to be that place. Transparent, sub-millimetre distal branches with genuinely acute takeoffs. You watch the wire fail or succeed in real time — no fluoro, no inference from a radiopaque marker, just the wire and the turn. Same problem, every discipline: → Neuro — distal access, small-vessel embolization, feeder navigation → Interventional radiology — prostatic, genicular, uterine and bronchial embolization, where the targets are small and the takeoffs are unforgiving → Cardiology — CTO crossing, septal collateral channels, retrograde work → Peripheral — below-the-knee, tibial-pedal, pedal arch access Sub-millimetre navigation through an acute angle is the same technical problem whether the vessel is in a skull or a foot. For guidewire and microcatheter companies: this is where your product actually demonstrates. Congress booths, KOL sessions, proctoring, field team training, internal R&D comparison. Repeatable, transparent, angio-compatible — and hard enough that performance differences are visible to the person holding the wire. For interventional programs: the operator builds the reflex here, not on the patient. 📤 Order patient-specific: upload.surgeonslab.com 🔗 surgeonslab.com #Guidewire #Microcatheter #MicroNav #Neurointervention #InterventionalRadiology #InterventionalCardiology #PeripheralIntervention #EndovascularTraining #MedTech

It starts as a stack of DICOM files — a CT or MRI, uploaded through our portal (upload.surgeonslab.com) from anywhere in the world, nothing about it yet resembling an object you could hold. From there, our engineering team goes to work: automated segmentation of the vessel walls, tracing the exact tortuosity and branching of that specific patient's anatomy, reconstructing it into a 3D model that keeps the real geometry intact rather than smoothing it into a realistic average. This is the part most people never see — a scan becoming a shape, one vessel at a time, built to move fast because a research timeline or a trial enrollment window usually doesn't wait. What comes out the other side is a physical, transparent vascular model — the same aneurysm or lesion that showed up on the original scan, now sitting on a bench, ready for a catheter, a device, or a set of hands that have never worked this exact anatomy before. For a device company validating a protocol or a program building investigator competency, that's the gap this closes: not a generic phantom, but the real case, reconstructed and ready before it becomes a live procedure. Precision models. Stronger outcomes. Upload your DICOM data: upload.surgeonslab.com #ClinicalTrials #MedicalDevice #DeviceValidation #PatientSpecificModels #VascularModels #ClinicalResearch #MedTech #InvestigatorTraining #SurgeonsLab

A WEB doesn't sit in the parent vessel. It sits inside the aneurysm. That changes everything about how you deploy it. Unlike a flow diverter or stent-assisted coiling, the WEB is a single self-expanding mesh that goes into the sac itself. It seals the neck from within and creates flow stasis leading to thrombosis. No metal across the parent vessel means no dual antiplatelet therapy — part of why it earns its place in wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms where a flow diverter is harder to justify. That structural difference makes deployment its own skill. Not stent technique. Not coil technique. Its own thing. Getting the microcatheter to the aneurysm is the routine part. The case is decided by what happens after release: how the device opens inside a sac that rarely matches its shape on the sizing table, where it settles relative to the neck, and whether the construct is actually sealing before the catheter comes out. In a bifurcation aneurysm with a difficult dome-to-neck ratio, a device that looks well-placed on the first pass can still be wrong. Sizing is where most of that judgment lives — and sizing judgment comes from having seen the device behave in enough different sacs to know what you're looking at. Our aneurysm model gives you that repetition. Transparent anatomy, so you watch the mesh open against the wall instead of inferring it from a radiopaque marker. Pulsatile flow. Real wall resistance. The full sequence — navigate, position, release, assess the construct — repeated until the assessment is reflex. Intrasaccular-device-agnostic and fluoroscopy-compatible. WEB, Contour, Artisse — the model runs in the angio suite with whatever platform your program or your field team trains on. For neurointerventional programs: upload the DICOM of the case you're doing next month at upload.surgeonslab.com and we'll build the model from that patient's anatomy. Rehearse the actual bifurcation, not a generic one. For intrasaccular device manufacturers and clinical training teams: physician training is an IFU requirement here, and most of it still happens on animal models, cadavers, or a proctored first case. This is repeatable, transparent, and patient-specific — for proctoring programs, KOL sessions, congress demos, and field support training. Practice the procedure. Be ready for the patient. 🔗 surgeonslab.com/aneurysm #WEBDevice #IntrasaccularDevice #Neurointervention #InterventionalNeuroradiology #WideNeckBifurcationAneurysm #Neurovascular #EndovascularTraining #MedTech

Aneurysm clipping is learned in the operating room, on a case that allows one attempt to get it right. That's the real constraint in neurosurgical training: the procedures with the least room for error are also the ones with the fewest chances to rehearse beforehand. A resident might see a handful of aneurysm cases across an entire program — fewer still where they're the one holding the clip applier. Clipping itself is a sequence of decisions under real physical constraints: exposure and visualization, micro-surgical dissection around a vessel and its perforators, selecting and placing the clip, then confirming occlusion without narrowing the parent vessel. Each step narrows the margin for the next. Our Advanced Neurosurgery Simulation models are built from patient-specific anatomy, so that sequence can be rehearsed physically — real instruments, real dissection, a clip applier working through a corridor shaped like an actual case — before any of it happens on a real patient. Precision training. Risk-free learning. Better outcomes when it counts. Know more about the Neurosurgery Simulation Models: surgeonslab.com/neurosurgery… #Neurosurgery #NeurosurgicalSimulation #AneurysmClipping #CerebralAneurysm #Microsurgery #SurgicalSimulation #MedicalSimulation #PatientSpecific #NeurosurgicalTraining #PhysicianEducation #SurgicalEducation #MedTech #SurgeonsLab

Three days in Marseille, and we're still thinking about it. ESMINT 2026 was busy for us, but the part worth writing about isn't how many people came by the booth. It's what they wanted to talk about. The question running through the whole congress wasn't "Can we treat this?" It was Should we, and for whom?" The sessions were about patient selection, imaging, functional outcomes, complications and several of the sessions made room for cases that didn't go according to plan, which is not an easy thing to stand up and present. That tells us something about where this community is heading. It also tells us something about what simulation has to get better at. We brought a lot to the booth: 1. MMA embolization models, reusable and disposable, for liquid embolics, particles, EVOH and coils 2. AVM and DAVF embolization models 3. Flow-based endovascular setups 4.  CathTrain VR for procedure-specific and customised catheter workflows 5. Compact block models for focused device demos and hands-on work What we didn't expect was how fast people moved past the model itself. Within a minute or two we were in deep discussions about embolic behaviour, distal penetration, access strategy, odd anatomy, what happens when a case turns. Physicians, device teams, researchers, all pushing on the same question: "Can a simulator hold the messy parts, or only the anatomy?" That's the honest challenge, and we're glad people put it to us directly. Building vasculature is the straightforward bit. Building something that lets you rehearse judgment is the part still worth working on. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, agreeing with some parts of what we had to say and disagreeing with others. It has left us with something to think about. If we spoke in Marseille and it got cut short, Let's connect here. Drop us a message and we can continue our conversation. #ESMINT2026 #Neurointervention #InterventionalNeuroradiology #MMAEmbolization #AVM #DAVF #Endovascular #MedicalSimulation #MedTech #SurgeonsLab

Fifty-plus simulation products. Four modalities. Three specialties. Finding the right one used to mean six open tabs and a message to your rep. Not anymore. Our full range now lives in a single catalog, sorted the way a training team actually thinks: start with interventional radiology, surgery, VR simulators, or the vascular model library, then narrow straight down to cardiovascular, neurovascular, or peripheral. Across it: → Interventional radiology — embolization models for MMA, AVM, and structural heart defects; flow models for pulmonary embolism, thrombectomy, atherectomy, and stenosis; aortic arch, Circle of Willis, and venous models; portable kits and patient-specific pre-op models → Surgery — aneurysm clipping, tumor resection, spine, and bypass models under our NeuraBubble™, NeuraOnco™, NeuraSpine™, and NeuraPass™ lines → VR — CathTrain VR, Endovascular Virtual Simulator → Vascular model library — 30 standing arterial and venous anatomies for repeated, hands-on practice A fellow prepping for an MMA embolization case, or a device team running a CathTrain VR demo, can land on the exact model in the time it takes to load the page. Nothing in it is there by default — every product is precision-engineered, close to reality, clinically relevant, and built around outcomes that hold up in the room where it counts. It's live now. Go see how fast you get from the case in your head to the model in front of you. Explore the full range: surgeonslab.com/products #MedicalSimulation #Neurovascular #InterventionalRadiology #Neurosurgery #Endovascular @SurgeonsLab #MedTech #SurgeonsLab #Pathology #Radpath #Clinpath #Surgpath

The case looks straightforward. Then the flow diverter starts to open. Catheter position was right. The strategy was clear. And now the distal end isn’t opening the way it should in that ICA turn, and you’re weighing wire position, microcatheter tension, wall apposition, and coverage across the neck — all at once, with the clock running. Ask any experienced neuro-interventionalist how they got comfortable in that moment and the answer is some version of the same thing: Repetition. You’ve seen the device misbehave enough times to know what it needs. The problem is where those repetitions currently happen. Here’s what changes when the rehearsal is built from the actual patient. Upload the DICOM at upload.surgeonslab.com — the case you’re operating next week, that specific ICA tortuosity, that specific neck geometry. We build the model from it and ship it back. Then the operator rehearses the real case before it becomes the real case. What you can practice on it: → Navigating the patient’s own tortuous anatomy — not an idealized curve → Deployment across a wide-necked aneurysm with realistic wall resistance and pulsatile flow → The failure modes that matter: incomplete opening, poor wall apposition, foreshortening, fish-mouthing at the distal end → Recovery technique — balloon angioplasty, catheter massage, J-wire manipulation, resheathing and redeployment → The same case, repeated, until the technique is reflex instead of improvisation The model is device-agnostic and fluoroscopy-compatible — it runs in the angio suite with whatever flow diverter platform you’re training on. For neurointerventional programs: rehearse the difficult case before it’s on the table, and let fellows build deployment judgment on anatomy that actually exists rather than a generic phantom. For flow diverter manufacturers and clinical training teams: physician training is an IFU requirement for these devices, and most of it currently happens on animal models, cadavers, or a proctored first case. This is a repeatable, patient-specific alternative that shows the operator exactly what your device is doing inside the vessel — for proctoring programs, KOL sessions, congress demonstrations, and field support training. #FlowDiverter #Neurointervention #InterventionalNeuroradiology #Neurovascular #Endovascular #Aneurysm #MedicalSimulation #EndovascularTraining #PhysicianEducation #NeurovascularSimulation #MedTech #SurgeonsLab

One thing stood out to us during the 9th Walter E. Dandy India Neurosurgical Educational Course in Siliguri. The residents did not struggle to understand the anatomy. They were taking their time to navigate the lesion. Before they began, they planned the procedure, identifying the aneurysm/tumor through real case images, the connection to the surrounding vessels. But when they got to the microscope, the anatomy became more complicated. The angle is different, the working space feels smaller, how much the vessel can move, how much force is appropriate when navigating, can the clip be placed as it was planned. These are things that come with handling the anatomy. This is what made the hands-on sessions particularly valuable. Surgeons and residents spent time with our SurgTrain Surgical Simulator, working through vessel tortuosity and complex aneurysm geometries and more importantly, making those small adjustments themselves. The value of a simulator is that it gives you a platform to experiment with your techniques, understand the protocol and improve every-time you try again. This is the kind of practice we, at SurgeonsLab, want to support. We want to support neurosurgeons prepare for it. Thank you to the Walter E. Dandy India Neurosurgical Society, the faculty, and all the trainees who made the August 27–29 course such a meaningful learning experience. You can try out our simulator models as well, reach out to us at "[email protected]" More about Simulation Models: surgeonslab.com/neurosurgery… More about SurgTrain Simulator: surgeonslab.com/neurosurgery… #SurgeonsLab #WalterEDandy #Neurosurgery #SurgicalSimulation #NeurosurgicalEducation #Microsurgery #SurgicalTraining #MedicalSimulation #Neurovascular #ACOM #ICA #MCA #TumourResection #Neuro #Surgery