Imaging in the 21st century.
The drive for cost reduction and increased quality of therapy (patient outcome) will lead to increasingly less-invasive procedures. As a result, imaging will become essential in the operating theatre environment, simply because the site of the intervention is not visible to the clinician performing it.
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Philips Medical Systems, DA Best, The Netherlands. michael.kuhn@philips.com
D003363:Cost Control; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D015642:Radiology, Interventional / Q000639:trends*