News tagged with surgical camera
A Better View for Surgeons During Minimally Invasive Surgeries
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is nearing completion of their first prototype of ...
Jan 02, 2009 |
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Engineer builds robot based on crab to remove stomach cancers
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a bit of science that has a genuine wow factor, doctors and a mechanical engineer from Singapore's National University Hospital and Nanyang Technological Institute have teamed together to build a small ...
An easier way to remove gallstones
For more than 100 years, the traditional treatment for the painful growths called gallstones has been removal of the gallbladder, or cholecystectomy. But a new device, patented in China, promises to make removing the entire ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs
Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Endoscope controlled by MRI: A 'fantastic voyage' through the body
small cameras or optic fibres that are usually attached to flexible tubing designed to investigate the interior of the body can be dangerously invasive. Procedures often require sedative medications ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Keeping stress at a distance
Beep-beep, tick, shoosh, beep-beep, tick, shoosh. Four tiny incisions are made in the patients abdomen thin metal tools are inserted into the incisions.
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Breast cancer patients needed for trial to assess imaging technique for mastectomies
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine are recruiting women with breast cancer to test whether a technique to image tissue blood flow could help reduce complications after mastectomy surgery.
Oct 25, 2011 |
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New imaging technique visualizes cancer during surgery
Ovarian cancer is one of the most frequent forms of cancer that affect women. As tumors can initially grow unchecked in the abdomen without causing any major symptoms, patients are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage and ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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New technology used in first fluorescence-guided ovarian cancer surgery
The first fluorescence-guided surgery on an ovarian cancer patient was performed using a cancer cell "homing device" and imaging agent created by a Purdue University researcher.
Sep 18, 2011 |
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Cognition research aims to reduce medical errors
How doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can be better prepared to reduce medical mistakes and improve patient care is the focus of several studies published in a special issue of the American Psychological ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Prostate cancer -- robotic surgery may be best option
Prostate cancer is a significant public health concern and cause of morbidity among men in the United States. In 2011, it is estimated that 240,890 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed and almost 34,000 men will ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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