The march of modern medicine is often driven by revolutions in medical imaging. When technology advances, doctors are better able to peer deeply into human…
“In addition to diagnostic purposes, chest CT can be used for the prediction of cardiovascular disease,” said Pushpa M. Jairam, M.D., Ph.D., from the…
The upgrade includes support for the new RAPIDComm Web Application enabling management of blood gas analyzers from an iPad, as well as an interface to PEP…
The new optical approach to brain scanning is ideally suited for children and for patients with electronic implants, such as pacemakers, cochlear implants and…
Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals. This…
Today, the majority of cancers are detected on the macroscopic level, when the tumor is already composed of millions of cancer cells and the disease is…
The 3D printed hip, made from titanium, was designed using the patient’s CT scan and CAD CAM (computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing)…
Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have steadily refined a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective,…
The difference of this prototype machine – the size of a large accordion – is that it uses angle-based gamma-ray detection instead of single angle-based…
High blood pressure is the greatest health risk worldwide behind smoking and alcohol consumption. In Germany, around 25 percent of the population suffers from…
Planar 99mTc-labeled RBC scintigraphy is sensitive for detection of acute gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding but its accuracy for localization of a bleeding source…
Each patient's chart is a key tool for doctors and caregivers in a hospital environment. It provides information on matters such as blood pressure, pulse rate…
We may soon be able to make easy and early diagnoses of prostate cancer by smell. Investigators in Finland have established that a novel noninvasive technique…
The findings point to the potential of rfMRI to help provide objectively accurate, early diagnosis of a disorder that affects approximately 5 percent of…
The cognitive function of infants can be visualised and tracked more quickly, more accurately and more cheaply using the method, called functional near…
Researchers from Warwick Medical School and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based method to…