Archive for the ‘Imaging’ Category
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
An imaging device developed by researchers in Netherlands combines photoacoustics (light-induced sound) with ultrasound to detect breast tumours, according to a press release from The Optical Society (OSA).
The device, Twente Photoacoustic Mammoscope (PAM), was recently used in clinical testings. Preliminary results were reported yesterday in the open-access journal Optics Express.
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
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When surgeons try to repair a malformed heart, one of the major concerns is to avoid damage to the conducting tissue that distributes electrical waves that trigger heart beats.
Until now, experts have had a limited understanding of this network of conducting tissue. A ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
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Researchers at University of Leeds have created a digital scanning system of tissue samples that allows for 3-D reconstruction of tissue. Conventional microscopy does not allow for true 3-D analysis, ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
Last week, an article on MD+DI discussed the race to create a real-life version of the Tricorder diagnostic device featured in Star Trek. The article included an interview with Walter De Brouwer, founder of Scanadu. De Brouwer discussed Scanadu's work on bringing the Tricorder to life and how the device ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
A new imaging method called High Definition Fibre Tracking (HDFT) can reveal broken neural connections in the brain. The method uses data from MRI scanners and processes it through computer algorithms. It was developed by researchers at University of Pittsburgh (PA, USA). The research was reported online in the Journal ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
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Oxford University researchers introduced a new approach to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the March issue of the journal NeuroImage. The approach could make fMRI more useful in clinical settings. fMRI captures ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
The Consumer Electronics Show, taking place in Las Vegas each year, is primarily a showcase of products about to hit the market, but this year Qualcomm made news when it announced a US$10 million competition for the development of a device similar to the Tricoder in Star Trek. The hand-held ...
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
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Researchers at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA) have created an imaging method to track single-wall carbon nanostructures in living cells and the bloodstream, according to a Purdue press release. The technique could have ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
From the wire: FEI, an instrumentation company supplying imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, has acquired Till Photonics of Munich, Germany. Till provides high-resolution digital light microscopes and high-speed imaging systems for live cell fluorescence microscopy.
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Magnetic resonance imaging can be uncomfortable to patients because of the narrow size of the tube that they are placed into. For patients with claustrophobia, this can be traumatic. The solution may be an MRI helmet.
Researchers at the University Clinic of Freiburg, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
Scientists at The University of Nottingham are developing microscopic organic medical imaging systems to support a new generation of breakthrough treatments for currently incurable diseases and chronic life-threatening illnesses. The nano-transducers, made from fat found in the membrane of naturally occurring biological cells, could have a whole range of medical applications, ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
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Nanostructured glass that can permanently store data has been developed by researchers at the University of Southampton. The material has applications in optical manipulation and could significantly reduce the cost of medical imaging.
Created by means of a femtosecond laser, the nanostructures change the ...
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