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March 14, 2005
Where man cannot go...
posted by hdittmer at 8:32 AM
A team of British scientists are working on robots that will help make significant improvements in the accuracy of biopsies. Needle biopsies taken for screening for prostate cancer are traditionally performed using ultrasound to identify suspect tissue. Unfortunately the quality of the images with ultrasound makes this a difficult process. Dr. Alex Zivanovic of Imperial College is working on robot that will perform the same procedure using MRI for targeting the needle biopsies. MRI provides significantly better images but the confined spaces of the MRI machine makes it difficult if not impossible for a human doctor to perform the procedure. So step in the robot. So where can your product of process benefit from some robotic help? What can a robot do for you customers that a human cannot?

