POSTS TAGGED AS imaging

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]

Nanotube X-ray Machine

“Xintek,” an imaging company in Research Triangle Park, NC, will be testing this summer a new device that uses an [MORE]

Noninvasive Device to Detect Congestive Heart Failure

Three years ago, researchers in Israel developed a novel technique that relies on electrical impedance to image internal organs.  Some [MORE]