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More trained doctors and greater demand for more minimally invasive operations will lead to a boom in 1 to 3 years, one analyst says
More hospitals continue to in vest in robotic surgery technologies, just as more surgeons are becoming deft in using first-generation equipment.
The leading manufacturers in this field are both California-based: Intuitive Surgical, Mountain View, and Computer Motion, Santa Barbara. Companies currently developing extremely small, high-resolution cameras attached to catheters for probing narrow vessels also are expected to energize the market soon.
Another new technology under research employs magnetics to move surgical instruments throughout body parts that are difficult to reach through conventional means. Voice-activated computer images of heart angiograms, robotic mitral valve surgery and robotic heart surgery that...
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