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Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | September 06, 2015
From the September 2015 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
When surgeons are placing electrodes in a patient’s thalamus, they will often have to remove and reinsert the electrodes and test frequencies in order to pinpoint the regions where the electric current suppresses hand tremors. But with the 3-D model, they can see actual details of the thalamus and the underlying circuitry.
Industry experts believe that 7T has come a long way, but that many challenges need to be ironed out before it can be used in the clinical setting. “To become part of [the] clinical standard, 7T needs to see breakthrough cost reduction [in terms of acquisition, sitting, ownership and helium dependence], increase in the number of high-value clinical applications and much greater ease of use,” says Philips’ Jean. “Without those advances, 7T will remain a tool reserved to an elite few institutions, and will struggle to enter the clinical standard domain.”
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