Hansen Medical of Mountain View, California just received FDA approval to market the company's new CoHesion visualization module for complex electrophysiology (EP) mapping procedures, a technology that bridges St Jude's 3D visualization guidance system EnSite? with Hansen's 3D robotic navigation system Sensei?. We first reported about Sensei? robotic system back in January 2007. This integrated EP...

Motion Computing has just announced that its clinically oriented C5 tablet PC, a computer covered by us on a number of occasions before (see flashbacks below), has just been upgraded and fortified thanks to a new solid state drive (SSD). Here's more: The C5 now features integrated mobile broadband and solid state drive (SSD) options to extend its usability to the point of care, regardless of patien...

Here's what we know about the opto-acoustic imaging technology from Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., a San Antonio, Texas firm. A recent report on the wires says that there is a new research agreement between Seno Medical and two Canadian universities to study the company's first-ever commercially available opto-acoustic small animal imaging device. It turns out the technology, that utilizes the con...

German researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that should make individual bone implants cheaper and more effective. This involves coating a surface with wafer-thin layers of special metal powder. A laser beam heats ? or sinters ? the powdered metal in the exact places that need to be firm. ?It?s like baking a cake,? says Andreas Burblies, spokesman for the Fraunhofer Numerical Simulat...

A new and apparently more precise method to assess the abrasion caused by dental products has been developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials scientists. From the press release: A leading manufacturer of dental hygiene products asked the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg, one of whose specialties is the analysis and visualization of surface roughness,...