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Mayo Clinic and IBM score significant advance in real-time medical imaging

04-09-2007 · EurekAlert!

Collaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed the processing of 3-D medical images.

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