POSTS TAGGED AS imaging

Predicting Alzheimer’s

Knowing early signs of any disease offers advantages in slowing and preventing debilitating symptoms.  With Alzheimer’s, investigators have discovered [MORE]

Grid Computing for Alzheimer’s

Grid computing-whereby multiple administrative computing domains loosely connect to gather and analyze data-has been around since the 1990′s.  The You [MORE]

Biophotonic Imaging for Apoptosis

For personalized molecular medicine to become a common practice, science need more information about the molecular phenomena of developmental [MORE]

CMS “Decision Support System” on Imaging

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid hope to enlist up to 3,000 private practice physicians to study how they [MORE]

The Human Connectome Project

Over the next five years, the National Institutes of Health will be funding a $40m project to scan the [MORE]

Nanogenerators for Medical Devices

Implanted medical devices are battery powered, which means the battery has to be changed from time to time.  Realizing [MORE]

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]