What does IGS stand for?

Image-Guided Surgery

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The prestigious Boston hospital had a longstanding relationship with General Electric for its image-guided surgery equipment.

United States : IMRIS scores lucrative sale of surgical systems in US

and a provider of medical markers used in image-guided surgery, radiology and radiation therapy procedures, sells products that range from fiducial markers, used with MRI, CT, and PET technologies, to passive reflective markers used during complex implantable gastric stimulation procedures.

Riverside Partners invests in IZI Medical Products

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) and BrainLAB, a manufacturer of software-driven systems for targeted, less-invasive medical treatments, has announced that they would be collaborating on the integration of intra-operative angiography and image-guided surgery (IGS).

PHILIPS/BRAINLAB INTEGRATE INTRA-OPERATIVE ANGIOGRAPHY/IGS

The side-by-side, dual-display configuration provides greater image real estate and streamlines image-guided surgery.

Dual Display PACS Cart

Scans are generated with a click of the mouse on a PC-based, integrated computer, and the scanner is compatible with most image-guided surgery systems.

Portable CT scanner

In addition to the installed Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization system, Robarts has just purchased an SGI(R) Altix(R) high-performance computing system to complement its research in image-guided surgery and therapy, including the treatment and surgery for cancer.

ROBARTS RESEARCH SELECTS SGI FOR IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY

Among the products developed by BrainLAB are software and hardware components for image-guided surgery and radiotherapy as well as integrated systems for stereotactic radiosurgery.

Jury decision reached in BrainLAB patent infringement lawsuit

Advances in image-guided surgery and robotics will propel surgery to be increasingly less invasive and safer.

RiverBend hospital part of new era of health care