The Ultimate Operating Room

The NIH supported researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have created the Advanced Multidisciplinary Image-Guided Operating (AMIGO) Suite. AMIGO is a state-of-the-art facility that includes Positron emission tomography/ computed tomography (PET/CT), computer-assisted fluoroscopy, 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), 3D ultrasound, as well as advanced navigational, robotics, and drug delivery tools.
For more information on the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering go to www.nibib.nih.gov/

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Today in Science History:
In 1887, the first operation was performed in the US to remove an appendix.
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