Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Software may help doctors see patients in clearer light

A startup company at the University of Rochester Medical Center is hoping to change the way doctors use medical imaging.

TIES LLC, short for Tomographic Image Enhancement Systems, has patented a new image-processing technology called "image surgery" that lets doctors and technicians focus on a specific organ or area of the body to create more precise images.

Radiologists can leave out images they don't want to focus on, resulting in a sharper picture of the organs or tissues they do want to observe, he said.

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