aid Dr. Raul Uppot, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School who is not involved in the research. It does offer something that doesnt currently exist in the market (for humans).Equimag

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Once the self-styled Olympic family started grumbling, Rio de Janeiro organizers knew they had to make rapid improvements.You need to provide good service, Rio Games spokesman Mario Andrada said Tuesday. And we were kind of dropping the ball a little bit in the beginning.International Olympic Committee executives and guests didnt like being made to wait around for transportation. Even a minute.Some routes were not very well organized, Andrada said. They stay in a Brazil for a short period of time. They want to go wherever they need to go quickly.Out went the volunteers, many of whom werent turning up; in came more professional, paid drivers to ferry Olympic figures around Rio. And the transport complaints largely stopped, at least among non-journalists.Its not hard to find people complaining at these financially and logistically troubled Olympics.Television stations paying fortunes to air sporting actions want full stadiums as the backdrop. Swathes of empty seats tell a different story, reflecting apathy amid high costs of tickets by local standards.With five days remaining of the games, organizers are still talking about it being a learning curve getting Brazilians to fall in love with the Olympics.When you have a full venue you are offering a better product to broadcasters and to fans far away, Andrada said. So we need to work in that direction. I think its on the priority list.We discuss this and work on this every single day. We are making progress and as we approach the final more seats will be filled ... because we know we need to offer a better product, a better view for the broadcasters.Even when the fans turn up, their conduct isnt to the liking of organizers or some competitors.As Renaud Lavillenie was deposed as Olympic champion by home favorite Thiago Braz da Silva, the French pole vaulter was booed on Monday. If you get no respect in the Olympics, where can you get respect? Lavillenie complained.In many ways it should not be done that way; in many ways its understandable, Andrada responded at the organizers daily media briefing. The public couldnt believe a gold medal is in sight (for Braz da Silva). They reacted in a very ordinary and normal way from some perspective but we cannot afford (that) an athlete feels booing interferes with his or her performance.There were also updates on other issues to beset the games:- All the people injured when an elevated television camera plummeted more than 60 feet to the ground Monday in the Olympic park have been released from hospital.- Signs and backdrops at the mountain bike course are being replaced after being damaged by a brush fire.- Rio de Janeiro police are investigating a Bulgarian athlete who was accused of beating up housekeepers at the Olympic Village. A housekeeper told police that the unnamed Bulgarian came out of his room when she and others arrived to clean it and hit her before attacking the others. Two boxers have been accused of sexually assaulting housekeepers and arrested since the Olympics began on Aug. 5.We are taking measures to inform the athletes of the best behavior, Andrada said.---Rob Harris can be followed at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports Fausse Air Max 95 Pas Cher . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. Vans Old Skool France . 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The resulting high-quality images, including some in 3D, for the first time offer detailed anatomical views of the animal in its normal, upright state.Thats a huge difference from the standard CT for a horse, which requires administering anesthesia, placing the animal on its side and maneuvering a scanning unit around the affected area. Not all body parts fit in the machines.Robotic CT is much less stressful, said Dr. Barbara Dallap Schaer, medical director of Penn Vets New Bolton Center. Its a pretty athletic event for horses to recover from general anesthesia.The New York-based company 4DDI created the Equimagine system with components from robot manufacturer ABB. First unveiled at Penn last spring, 4DDI now has orders for more than a dozen units at equine facilities around the world, according to CEO Yiorgos Papaioannou.The word is spreading, Papaioannou said.At Penn, the large white robotic arms are installed at a barn at New Bolton Center, the vet schools hospital for large animals in the Philadelphia exurb of Kennett Square. Horses are given a mild sedative and walked into the facility for a scan that lasts less than a minute.CT, or computed tomography, gives pictures of soft tissues that X-rays cant. While traditional CT requires the subject to be still, this new system compensates for slight movement. Eventually, vets hope theyll be able to capture CT images of a horse running on a treadmill.The ease of imaging means more horses can get preventive scans, said Dr. Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at New Bolton. As it stands, he said, many owners are reluctant to have their horses anesthetized for a diagnostic procedure because recovery can be treacherous. As the animals emerge from unconsciousness and woozily struggle to find ttheir footing, they risk catastrophic injury if they stumble.ddddddddddddSo the whole beauty of this technology, we hope, is that were going to be able to scan much greater numbers of patients much, much earlier in the process of things like stress-related injuries in a racehorse, Richardson said.For humans, the technology could be helpful when dealing with squirming children or claustrophobic adults. Doctors could also get clearer views of, say, spinal problems in a standing patient instead of relying on CT performed while the person is lying down. Penns translational research team has partnered with other hospitals to look at the possibilities.This is an interesting concept -- the ability to image in your natural state, said Dr. Raul Uppot, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School who is not involved in the research. It does offer something that doesnt currently exist in the market (for humans).Equimagines base cost is $545,000, according to Papaioannou, though he said some new customers are getting the equipment in exchange for a per-scan fee. The company plans to make another version of the system for smaller animals, he said.Penns system was made possible through a donor, said Dallap Schaer, noting the cost was comparable to standard CT scanners. Overall cost for the images will be less than CT scans that require anesthesia, she said.Dennis Charles, of Allentown, brought his horse Bert to Penn Vet for an MRI earlier this year, before robotic CT was available. The procedure required anesthesia, and Charles said he was incredibly nervous watching a wobbly Bert regain consciousness afterward.Last month, the horse again needed imaging but was able to have robotic CT. Charles, who described the robotic system as looking like something out of Star Wars, said the scans assured him Berts leg injury had healed.They get really precise images, he said. I think its a tremendous piece of equipment.---Follow Kathy Matheson at www.twitter.com/kmatheson ' ' '