Newsletter tagged with 'imaging'
Living Human Digital Data Library
Using whole-body CT and MRI scans, stereophotogrammetry, micro CT, laser diffraction, and chemical analysis, bioinformatics experts at Ortopedico Rizzoli [MORE]
Cerenkov Luminescence in Molecular Imaging
The blue glow of a nuclear reactor comes from a phenomenon called “Cerenkov luminescence,” where electrons moving through an [MORE]
Algorithm for Lower Dose CT Imaging
Virtual colonoscopy, which uses a CT scan instead of the traditional probe, has the advantage of being non-invasive, but carries [MORE]
Automated Eye Scan for Diabetes-Related Lesions
University of Iowa researchers have tested two computerized image analyzer programs and found both comparable for accuracy to expert [MORE]
Steering Mechanism for Camera Pill
Siemens Healthcare and Olympus Medical Systems have developed a prototype for a capsule endoscope with magnetic guidance. A patient [MORE]
Ultrasound as a Long Term Reversible Contraceptive
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professors James Tsuruta and Paul Dayton won one of 78 awards the Bill and [MORE]
Integrating Optical Diagnostics With Cell Phone Transmission
UCLA electrical and bioengineering professor Aydogan Ozcan led a research group to produce a lens-less microscope that can scan [MORE]
Supercomputing Human Diseases
Medical researchers and physicians at the University of Melbourne (state of Victoria) and IBM’s Research Computational Biology group in [MORE]
Nano-Agent for MRI Contrasting
The rare earth metal gadolinium is the most common contrasting agent used in MRI imaging, but like any drug, [MORE]
Ultrasound Clot Busting
With an apparatus resembling a Gamma Knife, University of California, San Diego professor Thilo Hoelscher is experimenting with high [MORE]
SIIM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, June 3-6, 2010
At the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine’s annual meeting, the program will feature a “bootcamp” for physicians, sessions on [MORE]
Catheter-Based Imaging
“Cellvizio” is the name of a small microscope that can be inserted into the colon or pancreatic bile duct [MORE]
DARPA’s “Silent Talk” Telepathy
We say words, but our brains “see” pictures. Those mental images can be detected by electrical sensors and computed [MORE]
IR Endoscope
Professor Huikai Xie, director of the Biophotonics and Microsystems Laboratory at the University of Florida, has developed an endoscope [MORE]
Imaging Inflammation in Brain Cells
Researchers at the University Medical Center in Groningen, The Netherlands have used positron emission tomography to show inflammation in the [MORE]
Automated Image Analysis
Using specialized software that works somewhat like laser capture microdissection, Cambridge Research and Instrumentation (Woburn, MA) has an automated [MORE]
Optical System to Image Electrical and Metabolic Activity of the Heart
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a two-camera system, used during surgery, to visualize a heart’s electrical activity and, [MORE]
Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 Innovations for 2010
At Number 1: A new non-surgical, removable hearing and communication device designed to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth to [MORE]
Pocket Ultrasound
Siemens has begun marketing its “Acuson P10″ portable ultrasound device-which is small enough to fit in a lab coat pocket. [MORE]
Focused Ultrasound for Brain Surgery
Combining ultrasound and MRI, neurosurgeons in Switzerland successfully eliminated small sections of brain tissue that were causing chronic pain in [MORE]