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_Planmed Oy, part of the Finnish Planmeca Group, recently introduced a new maxillofacial imaging option to its breakthrough Planmed Verity Extremity Scanner. _Planmed Verity—3-D extremity scanner The Planmed Verity extremity cone beam com- puted tomography (CBCT) scanner has been wel- comed to the market with great enthusiasm and is already widely used in university and private hospitals and orthopaedic clinics. Orthopaedists, radiologists and extremity specialists, such as hand and foot surgeons, have been utilising Planmed Verity in challenging cases of both lower and upper extremities. It has been noted to be a superior tool in diagnosing complex wrist and elbow fractures. With its unique weight-bearing imaging capability, the scanner has also helped clinicians to gain new knowledge of the anatomy of the foot. In addition to more traditional fracture imaging, arisingtrendistheuseofPlanmedVerityforarthrog- raphy. In arthrography, an intra-articular contrast agentisusedtoenhancethevisibilityofthecartilage surface. Traditionally, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been the main imaging method for joint space diagnosis, but recently contrast-enhanced CBCTarthrographyhasbeenfoundtobeacompeting methodduetoitssuperiorresolution.Ifthecartilage 26 I I industry news _ Planmeca cone beam4_2014 Planmed Verity—a mobile 3-D unit without parallel Fig. 1_MaxScan™ can be upgraded to all Planmed Verity devices. Fig. 1 CBE0414_26-27_Planmeca 28.11.14 11:38 Seite 1 CBE0414_26-27_Planmeca 28.11.1411:38 Seite 1