MR Robot: Prof. Dr. Andreas Melzer, director of the Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology at the University of Dundee in Scotland and co-founder of InnoMedic, describes at the ISMRM meeting a robot designed for MR interventions. The device, now in clinical testing, takes cues from an MR scan to position a probe at an exact point and along a specific trajectory. DI business editor Greg Freiherr has the report.
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