Orthopedic surgeons and researchers on putting weight-bearing CT to work
CurveBeam AI Cast talks with orthopedic surgeons, researchers and software founders about using 3D imaging in practice, especially weight-bearing CT. The conversations stay practical: what a scanner cost and how fast it was paid off, how a hand lab builds a collection of cadaver scans, and how patients react to seeing their own images.
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CurveBeam AI Cast is an interview show about orthopedic imaging, and it spends its time with the people who actually use the machines. Two hosts appear across the episodes. Vinti Singh, vice president of marketing at CurveBeam AI, leads some conversations. Dr. Lou Schoen leads others and is openly enthusiastic, calling advances in the technology mind-altering and game-changing. Weight-bearing CT is the subject that keeps coming back. Dr. Blake Moore, a foot and ankle surgeon in Virginia Beach, gives a very practical account of it: what his group paid for its scanner, how many scans it runs, and how the machine was paid off within its first two years. He also discusses how the scanner fits into a group with several specialties, where colleagues have their own routines. Mary Munoz, a foot and ankle surgeon in France, remembers colleagues telling her patients would get nothing out of the machine. She says her patients loved it. The scanner sits next to her office, and patients come in and look at their images with her. She also says that seeing sesamoid position in three dimensions improved her surgical technique. Research gets its own hearing. At the University of Arizona, Zhongmin Li, a professor of orthopedic surgery, is joined by Trevor and David to describe their collection of cadaver scans, mostly hands and other upper-extremity specimens, taken in neutral and loaded positions. Because cadaver work needs no review-board approval, the lab can scan freely, and the specimens are kept in freezers just next door. Hip and knee work comes up as well. Dr. H. Curtis Biggs, founder of the Joint Replacement Institute in Naples, Florida, describes growing from a one-doctor practice into a group with physical therapists on site, and admits he is glad to leave feet, hands, shoulders and backs to colleagues. Joao Pedro Ribeiro of PeekMed describes a hip and knee planning platform that surgeons learn with little training. It also has manual tools, added after surgeons asked for more control in complex revision and trauma cases. Singh ends that conversation by suggesting that software doing the heavy lifting could make weight-bearing CT easier to adopt for surgeons who have never used it. The most speculative talk comes from Dr. Francois Lintz, whose conversation with Schoen runs across two parts. In 'The Benefits of WBCT 3D Imaging Technologies with Dr. Francois Lintz: Part 2 of 2', the talk turns to joint space and whether imaging could one day tell ligament laxity from early arthritis. Lintz thinks those answers may come sooner than people imagine. The tone throughout is friendly and admiring, and with a company executive among the hosts, the show is better heard as a record of how clinicians adopt the technology than as a critical assessment of it. For a first listen, 'Beyond Traditional Imaging: Dr. Blake Moore on Weight-Bearing CT Scans' makes the practical case in plain terms.
Made for: Suits a listener in or near orthopedics, such as a surgeon thinking about buying a weight-bearing CT scanner or a researcher planning imaging work, who wants practical accounts from people already using the technology.
What sets it apart: It stays with one corner of orthopedics, weight-bearing and cone beam CT, and gives the microphone to the surgeons and researchers who own and use the scanners, so the talk covers purchase costs, lab routines, planning software and what patients see on screen. With CurveBeam AI's vice president of marketing among the hosts, it plays as a set of adoption stories rather than an independent critique.
Welcome to CurveBeam AI Cast, where we talk with doctors and experts in the field discussing innovations and insights into orthopedic imaging.
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