POSTS TAGGED AS radiology

Photoacoustic Imaging

Realizing that laser generated infrared light can induce vibrations in the carbon-hydrogen bonds of fatty deposits in arteries, Professor [MORE]

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion Technology (Andover, MA) [MORE]

First Radiology App for Mobile Device

“Mobile MIM,” a software application from MIM Software, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) allows x-ray, CT, MRI, and PET images [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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Improved Voice Recognition for Radiological Reporting

Agfa Healthcare, a division of the Agfa-Gavaert Group (Mortsel, Belgium) has released its “Talk Station 4.0″ voice recognition system that [MORE]

Shocking Images

If you were shocked by Duke geneticist Allan Roses estimate about the ineffectiveness of prescription medicines, you’ll be similarly disturbed [MORE]

Vector: Smart Capsule

Thomas Lango, an engineer with SINTEF-a large independent research organization in Norway-have been working with physicians to develop a “smart [MORE]

Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI)

Mammography, ultrasound, MRI and BSGI are four techniques for imaging invasive lobular carcinoma.  At a meeting of the Radiological Society [MORE]