Medical Engineering

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New Non-Invasive Technique Advances Metastatic Cancer Imaging

In preclinical animal models of metastatic prostate cancer, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, VCU Institute of Molecular…

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Imaging Detects Asymptomatic Stroke Risk in Carotid Artery Stenosis

The study looked at people with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis, a narrowing of the major blood vessels supplying blood to the head due to…

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New Biospleen Device Aims to Improve Sepsis Therapy

Things can go downhill fast when a patient has sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which bacteria or fungi multiply in a patient's blood — often too fast…

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MRI Insights: Myelin Loss Linked to MS Disability

Loss of myelin, the fatty protective sheath around nerve fibers, is a characteristic of MS, an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system that can lead…

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Siemens Unveils Acuson SC2000 for Enhanced Blood Flow Imaging

Siemens Healthcare introduces the new Prime edition of its Acuson SC2000 ultrasound system at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)….

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Siemens Unveils Cardiology Innovations for Heart Health

Under the motto “More cardiology, less heartache”, Siemens showcases its latest news in cardiology at the congress of the European Society for Cardiology in…

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Neuroscience Meets Big Data: Simplifying Brain Insights

In a new review paper published in Nature Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University's Byron M. Yu and Columbia University's John P. Cunningham describe the…

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Electronic Alerts Cut Catheter-Associated UTIs in Hospitals

A Penn Medicine team has found that targeted automated alerts in electronic health records significantly reduce urinary tract infections in hospital patients…

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Non-Invasive Technique Regulates Molecule Size at Blood-Brain Barrier

A new technique developed by Elisa Konofagou, professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at Columbia Engineering, has demonstrated for the first time…

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New Disposable Biosensor Aids Post-Surgery Feeding Decisions

A disposal, plastic listening device that attaches to the abdomen may help doctors definitively determine which post-operative patients should be fed and which…

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Unique Imaging Precision for Disease Treatment with xSPECT

Symbia IntevoTM*, the world's first xSPECT* system, integrates metabolic information from single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) into computed…

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Penn Researchers Make Cancer Glow for Better Surgery Outcomes

With a new technique, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have established a new strategy to help surgeons see the entire tumor in the patient,…

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Speedy computation enables scientists to reconstruct an animal's development cell by cell

Now, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have developed a way around that problem. They have created a new…

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New Technique Enhances Early Cancer Diagnosis Effectiveness

In recent years, aggressive research and substantial financial investments have been directed at discovering pre-symptomatic indicators of cancer, known as…

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New Standards for Hyperspectral Imaging in Medical Diagnostics

But a technology called hyperspectral imaging offers doctors a noninvasive, painless way to discriminate between healthy and diseased tissue and reveal how…

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Noninvasive Brain Control: Unlocking Potential with Optogenetics

Optogenetics, a technology that allows scientists to control brain activity by shining light on neurons, relies on light-sensitive proteins that can suppress…

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