POSTS TAGGED AS MRI

MRI-Guided Surgical Robot

Pierre Dupont, PhD chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering at Children’s Hospital Boston is working on a ball-baring sized robot [MORE]

Advances in Medical Imaging

This fascinating piece abstracts six new technologies in imaging that promise reduced radiation risk, reduced cost, mobile systems, and [MORE]

Making Colorful MRI’s

Professor Li Sun, in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston has developed nanoparticles which can [MORE]

MRI to Guide Drug Dosage

Positron emission tomography scans and radioactive labels now allow researchers to image a drug’s effect on the brain with [MORE]

Laser Imaging of Circulating Blood

Using two lasers that excite specific molecules in the skin, a Harvard team has been able to image blood [MORE]

Integrated MR Scanner

Siemens has combined a whole-body molecular magnetic resonance scanner and an integrated PET imager into one machine-a world’s first. [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]

Mayo Clinic’s Imaging Informatics Innovation Center

This story, billed as a White Paper on imaging informatics, actually is a docutisement (free download, 4 pages) for IBM [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]

Rapid TB Test

Tuberculosis sufferers account for some two billion people worldwide. The disease’s spread is a public health concern of the highest [MORE]