Image-Guided Surgery: Page 10

MR-guided ultrasound surgery of uterine fibroids is cost-effective

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 21 - Surgical management of symptomatic uterine fibroids can be accomplished cost-effectively with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS), Canadian and British investigators report in the March issue of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

April 20, 2008

3mensio nets CE Mark for workstation

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization developer 3mensio Medical Imaging of Bilthoven, Netherlands, has received the CE Mark Class IIa for its 3surgery vascular imaging workstation.

April 7, 2008

MediGuide Medical GPS gets CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MediGuide of Haifa, Israel, has received European CE Mark certification for its Medical Position System (MPS) and MPS-enabled Guided Measurement Catheter (GMC).

December 17, 2007

US-based minimally invasive treatments prove feasible for uterine fibroids

By Shalmali Pal

When it comes to the ultrasound-based treatment of uterine fibroids, clinicians should target patients whose benign tumors are not too big or not too small, according to two new studies. Researchers from Italy found that that percutaneous sonography-guided radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) was particularly adept at shrinking medium-sized fibroids, while a Japanese team found that MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) surgery was an optimal therapy option for fibroids with specific characteristics on preoperative imaging.

November 19, 2007

Advanced liver imaging shapes surgical strategies

By Eric Barnes

The days of planning liver interventions on the strength of a few CT or MR reconstructions may be numbered. Researchers from Germany and beyond are honing a set of advanced planning tools that not only provide high-resolution color-coded 3D visualization of the liver parenchyma and vasculature, but offer quantitative views of the intrahepatic vessel branching system and the risks of cutting at a given point in the organ.

September 17, 2007

Ziehm's IGS system to enter the U.K.

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Xograph Healthcare of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, U.K., will supply Ziehm Imaging's Cappa IS digital mobile C-arm with fully integrated surgical navigation system to the U.K. and Ireland.

June 27, 2007

InSightec nabs CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec announced that its ExAblate 2000 system has received the European CE Mark certification for pain palliation of bone metastases.

June 6, 2007

Hansen ships Sensei catheter in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Robotic technology developer Hansen Medical of Mountain View, CA, has begun shipments in Europe of its Sensei robotic catheter system.

May 2, 2007

Siemens, BrainLab bring intraoperative CT scanner to the U.S.

By Wayne Forrest

U.S. facilities are about to get their first look at a novel concept in intraoperative CT, thanks to a partnership between image-guided therapy firm BrainLab and Siemens Medical Solutions. The companies have developed an intraoperative CT system that slides into position for use during surgical procedures, eliminating the need to move patients out of the operating suite for additional imaging.

March 19, 2007

3mensio enters surgical visualization market

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization developer 3mensio Medical Imaging has signed a contract with the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands for the development and delivery of a new surgical visualization product, 3surgery.

January 17, 2007

Capsule endoscopy 'adequate' for esophageal studies

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 31 - In the September issue of the European Journal Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. Sanchez-Yague and colleagues at Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Seville report on 30 consecutive capsule examinations carried out in 28 patients who had refused to undergo conventional endoscopy.

October 30, 2006

Endoscopic capsules help pinpoint obscure GI bleeding

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Sep 5 - Capsule endoscopy leads to significant findings in the majority of patients who underwent the procedure because of obscure gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, Spanish researchers report in the August issue of the European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

September 4, 2006

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