Archive for the ‘Imaging’ Category
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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Friday, August 12th, 2011
A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan takes a detailed look at the future of the medical device market. The study predicts upcoming trends, discusses emerging technologies and products and includes a separate report on the medical imaging market.
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
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A camera that fits on the head of a pin contains no lenses or moving parts and costs just pennies to make. Developed ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a new high-resolution version of optical coherence tomography (OCT). The microOCT technique provides 10 times greater resolution than conventional OCT and can show cellular and subcellular features of coronary artery disease. The research was published online ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
University of Manchester researchers have developed an imaging method that shows what happens to the brain during anaesthesia. The method is called “functional electrical impedance tomography by evoked response” (fEITER). Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is being studied worldwide, but this is said to be the first time it's being applied ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
A recent study introduced at SNM’s 58th Annual Meeting last week demonstrated the advantages of 4-D PET image reconstruction in comparison to conventional 3-D PET image reconstruction for cancer detection. The study was led by Si Chen at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
A group of researchers at the Nuclear Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley has developed a technique to perform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy without magnets, according to a blog post on MPMN.
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