Life-giving technology
Monday, February 23, 2009 - 19:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Camera pills and ultrasound creating maps of the body: health has become high technology. For more than ten years, senior medical officer Ronald Marvik at St. Olav's Hospital in Trondheim has been collaborating with SINTEF scientist Thomas Lango. Together, they have created a new IT-base window on the inside of the body, a window that makes a patient transparent on a screen when a surgeon inserts operating instruments through small openings in the abdominal wall...