Neurology and Neurosurgery

Roberto Cartolari has the Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Modena, 1980, board on Radiology, University of Modena in 1984, board on Neurology, University of Siena in 1994. He patented the device, “Axial Loader” and development of neuroradiological imaging techniques known as Axial Loaded - Computed Tomography - AL-CT and Axial Loaded Magnetic Resonance - AL-MR for the in vivo biomechanical study of the spine in 1992. He is currently the Senior Radiologist at the Radiology

Service, Ospedale S Giovanni – EOC Bellinzona, Switzerland. He has authored and co-authored several scientific publications, abstracts and reports in national and international journals. He also collaborated on several chapters on international treaties of Neuroradiology. His main interests are diagnostic and spinal non-vascular interventional neuroradiology with special reference to CT and MRI , biomedical applications of virtual reality and biomechanics of the spine and joints. He is an Ordinary

Member of the Italian Association of Neuroradiology – AINR; Full Member of the European Society of Neuroradiology – ESNR.