Elekta to deliver brain mapping technology to Wisconsin hospital

Elekta has signed a contrast to deliver Elekta Neuromag, the equipment for non-invasive registration of nerve cell activity using magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology, to the Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee.

With the MEG system from Elekta installed, neurosurgeons and neurologists at the hospital will be able to non-invasively record human brain activity in real time and with more accuracy, according to the Stockholm, Sweden-based Elekta.

Froedtert Hospital will receive its new Elekta Neuromag MEG system in the autumn of 2008, Elekta said.

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