Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) have developed a prototype ultrasound camera capable of transmitting image data from within a blood vessel or a heart at 60 frames per second. The forward-looking 3-D images produced by the device will provide significantly more information than existing cross-sectional ultrasound.
New York Presbyterian Hospital has moved the bar upward, creating the “operating room” of the future. The technology in this new surgical suite allows for more efficient surgery with enhanced visualization using the latest endoscopic and imaging technologies. Physicians are a new breed, today they are required to know surgery, radiology, digital technology and communication and integrate with new knowledge base developments.
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IRVINE, CA–(Marketwired – March 06, 2014) Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, today announced the successful completion of the first three human implants of its FORTIS mitral transcatheter heart valve, which were performed in February and March by the Heart Team at St. Thomas’ […]