Advanced visualization firm Viatronix of Stony Brook, NY, has installed its V3D Colon module at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, as well as the BWH Radiology outpatient imaging center in Chestnut Hill, MA.
BWH, MGH, and Viatronix also will collaborate to offer virtual colonoscopy training courses for radiologists and gastroenterologists.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
March 1, 2007
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