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Breakthrough in Brain Monitoring Technology for Epilepsy Care

Today, the way a physician gets an idea of how many seizures a person with epilepsy has had is through the patient’s own record of seizure activity in his day-to-day life. Despite all the technological advances in devices monitoring the human body, a patient’s seizure diary, as it is often called, remains the only means to record and count epileptic seizures outside the clinic. Any insights that such a diary can provide on the effects of medication, seizure frequency or…

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New 3D Imaging Technique Reveals Lung Damage in COVID-19

Researchers led by Göttingen University develop new three-dimensional imaging technique to visualize tissue damage in severe Covid-19 Physicists at the University of Göttingen, together with pathologists and lung specialists at the Medical University of Hannover, have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique that enables high resolution and three-dimensional representation of damaged lung tissue following severe Covid-19. Using a special X-ray microscopy technique, they were able to image changes caused by the coronavirus in the structure of alveoli (the tiny air sacs…

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Wireless Implantable Transmitter Enhances Biomedical Devices

The Purdue team developed a fully implantable radio-frequency transmitter chip for wireless sensor nodes and biomedical devices. The research is published in…

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15-Minute Graphene Oxide Test Detects Infections Rapidly

The current situation with the COVID 19 pandemic underscores the importance of detecting infections quickly and accurately to prevent further spread. Today,…

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Sensor Patches: The Future of Fitness Tracking for Health

Staying active means staying healthy – and not just in times of quarantines and lockdowns. More and more physically active people want to know what their…

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Images from the inside of blood vessels

Researchers of the Universities of Stuttgart and Adelaide in cooperation with medical research centers in Australia developed a special microoptical tool with…

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World's smallest imaging device has heart disease in focus

The camera-like imaging device can be inserted into blood vessels to provide high quality 3D images to help scientists better understand the causes of heart…

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Mobile EEG: Smart Detection of Epileptic Seizures Anytime

The catchy title »MOND« stands for the project’s clear objective: The conceptual development of a »Mobile, Smart Neurosensoring System for the Detection and…

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First COVID-19 Patient in Germany Treated with Diaphragm Therapy

Department B for Internal Medicine of the University Medical Center Greifswald successfully used, within an international multi-center trial, a special…

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Restoring Vision: Electrical Stimulation Breakthrough

If a project receives funding from the European Union, it must involve excellent science in innovative and promising interdisciplinary research fields that…

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Active Photonic Wireless System Powers Medical Implants

Over the past few decades, medical technology seen various advances in terms of the scope and efficiency of implant devices. For example, developments in…

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Multi-Channel Cochlear Implants: A New Era in Hearing Aids

Conventional hearing prostheses, so-called cochlear implants (CI), stimulate the auditory nerve of severely hearing impaired or deaf people by applying…

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AI Identifies and Locates Seizures in Real-Time

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis' McKelvey School of Engineering have combined artificial intelligence with systems theory to develop a more…

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Stay Active This Winter: Smart Wearables for Cold Sports

It is not only in summer that it can get hot during sports activities, because sport during winter also has its pitfalls. Outside it is freezing cold, and…

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AI Innovations Transforming Medical Technology Today

AI methods enable machines to autonomously operate, carry out analyses and make decisions in complex situations. These characteristics make AI systems…

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Intelligent Ultrasonic Sensors Enhance Postoperative Bladder Care

Blood in the urine is a common symptom after surgical interventions on the urinary tract of any kind. Continuous bladder irrigation is used as a standard after…

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