Jia-Lun Kwok, Vincent De Coninck, Frédéric Panthier, Hatem Kamkoum, Felipe Pauchard, Anil Shrestha, Vineet Gauhar, Jan Brachlow, Florian Alexander Schmid, Cédric Poyet, Daniel Eberli, Olivier Traxer, Etienne Xavier Keller
PURPOSE: To date, no study has evaluated effects of varying brightness settings on image quality from flexible ureteroscopes submerged in saline. The aim was to evaluate blackout and whiteout occurrences in an in-vitro kidney calyx model. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We evaluated a series of contemporary flexible ureteroscopes including the Storz Flex-Xc and Flex-X2s, Olympus V3 and P7, Pusen 7.5F and 9.2F, as well as OTU WiScope using a 3D-printed enclosed pink in-vitro kidney calyx model submerged in saline...
May 5, 2024: World Journal of Urology