Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

New Technique Enhances Accuracy in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

The surgeon who more than two decades ago pioneered deep brain stimulation surgery in the United States to treat people with Parkinson's disease and other…

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Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Perform Pioneering Robotic Hysterectomy

Two Johns Hopkins gynecologic surgeons are among the first in the nation to perform a robotic hysterectomy using a single, small incision. Amanda Nickles…

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New Virus Detection Techniques Speed Up Disease Diagnosis

To test the severity of a viral infection, clinicians try to gauge how many viruses are packed into a certain volume of blood or other bodily fluid. This…

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CT detects twice as many lung cancers as X-ray at initial screening exam

National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) investigators also conclude that the 20 percent reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomography…

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Robotic Transplants: New Hope for Obese Kidney Patients

UI Health surgeons provide new hope to obese patients previously denied access to kidney transplantation.The findings should allow more obese patients to…

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New 3-D Technology to Treat Atrial Fibrillation Unveiled

Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center have developed a new 3-D technology that for the first time allows…

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Printable 'bionic' ear melds electronics and biology

The researchers' primary purpose was to explore an efficient and versatile means to merge electronics with tissue. The scientists used 3D printing of cells and…

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Johns Hopkins’ Tiny Surgical Tools Achieve Breakthrough in Biopsies

In two recent peer-reviewed journal articles, the team reported successful animal testing of the tiny tools, which require no batteries, wires or tethers as…

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Siemens Unveils Innovative Imaging Solutions for Radiotherapy

At the Second Forum of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Siemens Healthcare will debut the new RT Pro…

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Tomosynthesis Boosts Breast Cancer Detection by 11%

2D plus 3D breast imaging increases cancer detection rates by 11%, and could be particularly useful in detecting cancer in women with dense breasts, a new…

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Breast Ultrasound Detects Cancers Missed by Mammography

The study, conducted in conjunction with seven Connecticut radiology practices, included 19,745 women who had dense breasts and “normal” mammograms….

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Laser Optics and Ultrasound: A Noninvasive Prostate Cancer Test

Researchers at the University of Rochester looked at 42 prostatectomy specimens using the new imaging technique. Multispectral photoacoustic imaging, still in…

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Tiny Wireless Device Shines Light on Mouse Brain, Generating Reward

The researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, developed tiny devices,…

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Lights, Chemistry, Action: New Method for Mapping Brain Activity

Building on their history of innovative brain-imaging techniques, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and…

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Notre Dame 3D Imaging Aids Surgeons With New Techniques

A paper by the researchers, “3D Printing of Preclinical X-ray Computed Tomographic Data Sets,” was published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments this week.

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New SLOT Process Advances Tomographic Imaging Techniques

The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) has filed a patent application for a SLOT process, which was originally developed as a 3-D fluorescence process for…

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