SOTERIA from Amsterdam showed a pneumatic driven robot assistant on the NORAS booth for MRI guided prostate procedures ... interesting concept if interventional procedures in the MRI will eventually become more routine. But then you would probably think about completely new designs rather than to take a diagnostic MRI and only occasionally utilise it for that procedure.

And I saw the CURVEDBEAM Cone-Beam CT again, which allows weightbearing examinations. There are other vendors around that offer such systems (eg PLANMED), but that one seems quite versatile and user-friendly. Lots of thanks to VISUS again, who ensured that I could attend and that fed me when needed and that are organising the closest (200m) and highest (21st floor) ECR after show party in Vienna.


Thanks for the interesting discussions and see you again either in Magdeburg (I am organising a small Healthcare-Innovation.de conference in June) or in Chicago (50/50 chance) or again next year at a probably even larger ECR ...

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