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Swallowable Ultrasound Device

Ultrasound Pill Chip
ZetrOZ (Ithaca, NY) is known for making a wearable ultrasound device to treat inflammation and chronic [MORE]

Automated Brain Blood Monitor

Ultrasound Headset
The signature combat wound of the Iraq War has been brain trauma, and as in previous wars, the military’s [MORE]

Photoacoustic Imaging

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

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Ultrasound opeing blood-brain barrier
Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion [MORE]

First Radiology App for Mobile Device

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

MRI to Guide Drug Dosage

MRI and Drug Dosing
Positron emission tomography scans and radioactive labels now allow researchers to image a drug’s effect on [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 – CAT Scan
Virtual colonoscopy, which uses a CT scan instead of the traditional probe, has the advantage of [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

Nano Diamond
The rare earth metal gadolinium is the most common contrasting agent used in MRI imaging, but like any [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]