15 Dec Prisma’s robotically-controlled system successfully captures the axial skeleton of a live, conscious standing horse
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DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Dec. 8, 2018– Prisma has successfully acquired and produced radiographic images of an equine subject’s lumbar and upper thoracic spine. The significance of this event was three-fold: 1) it demonstrated the robot’s ability to safely navigate around a conscious, standing equine patient; 2) the horse’s tolerance of moving robots; and 3) the efficacy of the system’s line-scan imaging technology to capture the “high-mass” regions of the horse’s anatomy that current imaging technology is not capable.
Test subject “Alf” a 1,200 lbs. retired warm-blood show jumper. Image of Alf’s lumbar spine. Image of Alf’s upper thoracic spine.