Dear AuntMinnie Member,
This week we're featuring stories from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, currently under way in Houston, where contributing writer Kathlyn Stone is on hand filing daily reports.
First up is an article on a unique SPECT/CT mammography system, which has been used for its first studies on human subjects at Duke University. Learn more about the system by clicking here.
In another story, find out what the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine told AAPM attendees about the relationship between new physics-based technology and rising healthcare costs in the U.S. That article is available by clicking here.
Finally, get the details on how a computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm from the University of Chicago could help identify suspicious lesions on breast MRI scans.
Hands-free brain surgery?
In other news, staff writer Cynthia Keen reports for our Healthcare IT Digital Community on a prototype system that enables brain surgeons to control images on a PACS workstation using hand gestures rather than computer peripherals such as a keyboard or mouse.
Developers of the system, which is known as Gestix, hope the device could some day speed up brain surgeries because surgeons wouldn't have to re-scrub each time they interact with the workstation.
Is Gestix the wave of the future, or just a clever novelty? Make up your own mind by reading the story -- and watching the video -- which you can reach by clicking here, or visit the community at healthcareit.auntminnie.com.
